Blog Listing: Akamai Ion

Do you often worry about third-party content on your website and wonder about its impact on page performance?  Third-party tools are ubiquitous and necessary in the modern web world. They aid many essential functions such as rendering ads, collecting analytics, connecting to social media, rendering A/B experiences, and so on - but third-party scripts are often also responsible for slowing...

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Interconnect provides a direct connection, also known as a Private Network Interconnect (PNI), between Akamai and Google to improve the performance, control, and cost associated with the exchange of origin traffic. Connecting to Google through the PNI can reduce cloud provider egress costs and boost performance. Akamai is committed to creating the best experience possible for...

This blog is part of the Akamai Platform Release, where we’re giving you all the details about what Akamai has added and improved for developers! You can view all of our updates here.   Akamai is adding a more powerful Brotli/Zopfli compression algorithm for delivering their SVG files! As of March 2020, Akamai Ion customers will automatically be able to turn...