Blog Listing: Monitoring

The Akamai 2018 October Release includes a major change to Akamai mPulse: a new methodology for calculating predicted conversion rates.

Akamai mPulse combined with an Akamai content delivery network (CDN) gives you a powerful way to monitor the performance of your CDN and your origin. The secret to this new capability is server timing. Here’s how it all works: When mPulse is injected via Property Manager, Akamai adds extra server-timing response headers. These headers follow the Server Timing API and...

Waterfall charts have been a staple of web performance analysis from the very beginnings of our industry in 2003, thanks to IBM Page Detailer and continued development on FireBug and of course WebPageTest.org. These visualizations are our default tools to understand the structure of our pages and have been fundamental to our understanding of web performance. Waterfall charts have one...

This is one in a series of posts about the Akamai 2018 Spring Release. For an overview of the Spring Release, see our post here.  Almost every website today has third-party scripts running on it. Controlling how and when third-party content is displayed is an increasingly important part of delivering your experience. Scripts can pose a big performance hurdle on...

This is one in a series of posts following up on our announcements from the Developer Zone at Edge 2017. For a complete review of Edge, see our recap page. Akamai mPulse is a new real-user monitoring (RUM) tool that generated a lot of excitement when we presented it at Edge 2017. In short, mPulse is built to help you...

Web site owners need to monitor the performance of their site, and measuring how long things take to load is a significant part of that. Your web pages likely contain content you own and you don't own, and while measuring the performance of assets you own is straightforward, measuring the performance of third-party assets is not. This brought me to...

When using a cloud service, keeping tabs on availability and performance is critically important. Knowing that your system is humming along without issues helps keep you focused on your core business. One of the ways to keep track of your Akamai properties is through the Adaptive Alerts system, which sends you an email when your website experiences a spike in...

As web developers, we want to give our users the best possible experience, and so we tend to focus on how fast the page loads. In a recent blog post here, Flattening the Earth: Testing and Improving Content Delivery, the author uses WebPageTest to test how fast a page loads in various environments. But page loading speed alone doesn’t give...

In the ever-changing world of web performance analytics and measurements, this is one of the most common questions we hear: “How is mPulse different from Google Analytics?”

Most people in the performance engineering field agree that our skillset is derived from an intersection of disciplines that include testing, optimization, and systems engineering. Because of the interdisciplinary requirements, these skills can be difficult to accumulate organically, but it's possible!