Abstract

Akamai Technologies, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to benchmark the performance of the company’s Web Application Accelerator and Dynamic Site Delivery, managed services that promise to accelerate Web-based enterprise-class content and business processes on a global scale.

Web Application Accelerator (B2B) and Dynamic Site Delivery (B2C) are services that enable enterprises to accelerate dynamic, highly-interactive Web applications securely, resulting in improved performance, higher availability, and an enhanced worldwide user experience. Tolly Group engineers conducted extensive tests pertaining to improving application performance for Web applications. Engineers set up three Web servers in the U.S., United Kingdom and Singapore. These servers fielded requests via HTTP from a wide variety of clients scattered worldwide. Tests were conducted during April 2006.

Results show that the Akamai Web application acceleration services improved the performance of actual applications via Web page downloads by as much as 5X across three global locations for B2C scenarios.