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Simon Hearne

Web Performance Architect

Simon Hearne is a web performance architect at Akamai, he has spent the past decade helping clients to understand and optimize the performance of their websites and applications. Simon often speaks about web performance topics at conferences, chairs the DeltaV web performance conference and is a director of the London Web Performance meetup group. He can be found on twitter at @SimonHearne.

Posts by Simon Hearne

Akamai Blog | Integrating Akamai mPulse with Consent Management Providers

October 14, 2021Simon Hearne

Akamai mPulse is a real user monitoring solution, providing detailed information about the user experiences delivered by your web applications. mPulse can be configured within your Akamai property to automatically start collecting data from your customer visits. This initial setup will gather the data required to use advanced features in Adaptive Acceleration such as Script Manager, Automatic Server Push, and Automatic Preconnect.

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Akamai Blog | Timers, Metrics, and Dimensions: What's New for mPulse in 2020

October 12, 2020Simon Hearne

The October 2020 release marks the culmination of a large number of updates to mPulse, Akamai's real user monitoring (RUM) solution:

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Akamai Blog | Measuring and Improving Core Web Vitals

October 12, 2020Simon Hearne

Google recently announced a proposed update to its search ranking algorithm: the Page Experience Update. This change, which launches in 2021, includes more performance signals in the ranking algorithm. A subtle but important feature of the update is that AMP will no longer be a requirement for promotion to Top Stories -- fast pages are all you need!

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