Abstract

Akamai Technologies commissioned The Tolly Group to benchmark the performance of the company’s Dynamic Web Acceleration Services, which encompasses Web Application Accelerator and Dynamic Site Accelerator – both of which promise to accelerate Web-based enterprise-class content and business processes on a global scale.

Tolly Group engineers conducted extensive tests pertaining to improving application performance for Web applications. Engineers set up one Web server each in the U.S., United Kingdom and Singapore. The servers fielded requests via HTTPS from a wide variety of clients scattered worldwide. Application response times were measured using the Keynote testing service — both without the benefit of the Akamai service, as well as with the Dynamic Web Acceleration Services enabled. Tests were conducted during April 2006.