Beyond CWV: 11 More Performance Metrics to Monitor, Part 3 of 5

Learn the differences between synthetic tests and real user monitoring, and discover 11 web performance metrics beyond the Core Web Vitals — and how to use them...

What’s the difference between a CDN and a Web Accelerator❓

A Content Delivery Network CDN is a network of servers that deliver static assets to the end-user, while a Web Accelerator is another way of saying a CDN with a different name. The CDN is a network that has, as its primary function, optimizing access to content that is in demand, usually in the...

Performance-testing the Google I/O site

I've been looking at the performance of F1 websites recently, but before I dig into the last couple of teams, I figured I'd look a little closer to home, and dig into the Google I/O website. 1. Part 1: Methodology & Alpha Tauri 2. Part 2: Alfa Romeo 3. Part 3: Red Bull 4. Part 4: Williams 5. Part...

Visualize Visitor Prioritization in Real Time with mPulse

COVID-19 is changing our behavior as we try to avoid person-to-person contact. For example, according to the Google Mobility Report, September 2020 shows an average 23% drop in retail and recreation activity and a 22% drop in workplace traffic in Tokyo compared to a baseline average before COVID-...

What's New in Services and Support

Why Services and Support? Whether you are new to Akamai or increasing your adoption of our solutions, Services and Support is here to help you take on the most challenging problems businesses face today, so you can offer consistent, fast, secure experiences to your customers. It's no secret that...

We Love Our Customers!

Here in the States, we often get our dry cleaning returned on hangers that say "We Love Our Customers." I once inadvertently brought one into the office back in the day, and our team displayed it prominently on a shelf, because it's true. Meeting with customers is the best part of my job here at...

CVE-2020-14006

Solarwinds Orion with Web Console WPM 2019.4.1, and Orion Platform HF4 or NPM HF2 2019.4 allows XSS via a Responsible Team...

A QUICk Introduction to HTTP/3

HTTP/3 is the newest iteration of the HTTP protocol that improves web security and performance...

March 2020 - Professional Services and the Media Industry

In today's ever-shifting market, we recognize that you need to be constantly adapting, and Akamai provides a way to enhance your customers' experiences through our unique expertise, helping you unlock the value of Akamai's products and services. Professional Services' primary mission is to drive...

Alleviating Digital Transformation Performance and Security Concerns

Businesses across the world are migrating applications to the cloud to reduce IT cost and complexity, and accelerate the pace of innovation. But when you move applications and services to the cloud you lose visibility and control over your infrastructure, increasing risk and uncertainty. That's w...

Securing CDN Delivery with TLS at Massive Scale

The growth of HTTPS on the Internet Amidst ever-growing security concerns, providing protected Internet connections is more important than ever. The movement towards an Internet that places more emphasis on data integrity and confidentiality is taking place swiftly. HTTP connections are giving wa...

Mobile Optimization Should be Your Highest Priority

Predicting and preparing for peak traffic volume and resource demands is a difficult task for online retailers around the world. They need to be ready for both expected and unexpected traffic spikes at any time. No one wants the CEO on their doorstep asking why their website is down and losing...

SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM) Detection (Windows SMB Login)

SMB login-based detection of SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor WPM. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Get the message: Your shopper data is trying to tell you something

This article originally appeared in Internet Retailer As we head into the thick of the holiday shopping season, web teams must make sure the path from discovery to purchase is as easy and painless as possible. Knowing where potential fail points are ahead of time makes it easier to prepare, while...

Open STA Manager Arbitrary File Download Vulnerability

Open STA Manager is a free, open source web performance testing tool. An arbitrary file download vulnerability exists in Open STA Manager version 2.3, which can be exploited by an attacker to download arbitrary files...

Zero Trust Security Architectures - Akamai's Approach

This is Part 5 of a 5 part blog series. Jump to Part 1: Introduction Jump to Part 2: Network Micro-Segmentation Jump to Part 3: Software Defined Perimeter Jump to Part 4: Identity Aware Proxy Introduction In the first part of this blog series, we covered an overview of zero trust architecture...

Akamai 2018 Spring Release, In A Nutshell

Progressing Towards Our Future in The Cloud, Together As organizations continue to fuel and execute on their digital transformation ambitions, they're increasingly finding significant business agility and cost savings by adopting cloud, multi-cloud, or hybrid architectures. Availability, security...

The Recipe for Web Performance Starts with the Right Ingredients: Page Construction Metrics

You can't manage what you can't measure. As devices grow in capacity and innovations allow us to do more with web apps, the complexity of our pages has grown, too. It becomes a balancing act to increase functionality while maintaining a performant and responsive site. Just like a great recipe, to...

Let's Get Visual: Best Practices for Digital Image Management

"Offering rich, interactive images has emerged as a critical component to any website or web app visitor engagement strategy -- and with good reason," wrote Parag Pathak, our Senior Product Marketing Manager, in his recent published article - Let's get visual: best practices for digital image...

Redirecting On the Edge

On the web, every second counts. Service engineers and operations teams are looking for ways to save milliseconds from web pages' load times. One of the simpler ways to squeeze better performance from web pages already using a Content Delivery Network CDN is to move the redirection responses from...