We all occasionally experience slow or even bad performance when we’re surfing the web. But is the Web itself actually getting slower? At a recent Akamai analyst event, one speaker did say this exact thing, making the statement that the Web is getting slower.
To find out what was causing the Web to drag, I sat down with the Akamai speaker who had made the comment about the slowdown, Mike Afergan, SVP and GM of the Web Experience Business Unit at Akamai. And he said that the reason the Web is slowing down for so many of us isn’t a problem with the Web itself, but with how many of us now use the Web.
To listen to a podcast of my discussion with Akamai’s Afergan about how changes in how people use the web are making it more likely that we’ll experience slow performance, click the Play button below.
For more on this topic, read the Aberdeen report We All Pay the Price for Internet “Hiccups”
