My Latest Blogs

I Shaved 3 sec Off LCP with Early Hints

103 Early Hints can be a great tool for improving Web Vitals

4 Ways to Enable mPulse Sampling

Its often useful to sample the mPulse behavior in your Akamai configuration.  Learn how.

LCP in mPulse

Get detailed information about the LCP element in mPulse

mPulse CSP Settings

Use these settings in your CSP to ensure mPulse works properly

Managing Redirects with Akamai - Best Practices

2 ways to manage redirects with Akamai

RUM vs Synthetic

This handy guide highlights the differences between RUM and synthetic monitoring in the ADLC

mPulse 101

Learn the basics of mPulse – Akamai’s RUM tool

EdgeWorkers - Enhancing Reliability With FailOver

Plan for graceful handling of code and platform errors

EdgeWorkers - Personalizing the HTTP Response

Use find-replace-stream to personalize the HTTP response body

EdgeWorkers - HTTP Requests to 3rd Parties

Learn how to make HTTP sub-requests to 3rd party domains from EdgeWorkers

7 Tools To Measure Core Web Vitals

Important tools measure site performance

Queue Your Visitors During High Demand

Akamai’s Visitor Prioritization enables fault tolerant queuing

Get Detailed Resource Performance Data in mPulse

TAO Header exposes vital resource performance data

3rd Party Performance

Learn how to monitor and improve 3rd party performance