To confront the need to understand the real user experience, rapidly and easily apply optimizations to meet situational performance requirements, and improve mobile performance, Akamai Technologies has introduced new updates to its Web experience product Aqua Ion, as per an announcement.
Mike Afergan, Senior Vice-President & General Manager, Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai, said, Consumers are now in charge of how, when and where they connect to Web content. These varied situations are powerful for online business but create complexity for content providers and can result in a loss of control over the experience and ultimately how well it performs. Aqua Ion simplifies the complexity of modern Web delivery while at the same time providing a faster experience that is highly available, secure and scalable.
The updated version of Aqua Ion will help to make the technology faster and easier to deploy.
The enhancements to the Aqua Ion include addition of Real User Monitoring (RUM), performance capabilities, mobile performance and rapid configuration. The addition of RUM to Aqua Ion offers key insight to content providers who can respond accordingly – and deliver smarter optimizations.
New techniques include DNS pre-fetching, which can help relieve bottlenecks when third-party services are used alongside first-party content, and Placeholder Images, which can help deliver a usable, interactive page to the user sooner.
The latest version of Aqua Ion features SHUTR (Suppressed Headers for Uplink Traffic Reduction) support to help improve performance for mobile users. SHUTR addition will help to speed up page downloads and reduce network data traffic, overall improving the mobile Web experience on Snapdragon processor-based devices.
