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  • Lightweight Latency Measurement with Server-Timing

    Leon Brocard

    Measure end-to-end request latency with Server-Timing. See how origin, Fastly Compute, and CDN delivery timings appear in browser dev tools.

    CDN & Delivery
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  • Upgrading Visibility for Compute with Domain Inspector

    Namit Shivaram, Delen Trance

    Fastly's Domain Inspector now supports Compute. Get robust domain-level observability, real-time traffic visibility, and faster troubleshooting at the edge.

    Compute
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  • Fastly’s Pillars of Resilience: Building a More Robust Internet

    Brian Haberman

    Discover Fastly's Pillars of Resilience: unwavering availability, minimized latency, and disruption resistance for a robust internet experience with our global network.

    CDN & Delivery
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  • Fastly Packages Just Got an Upgrade

    Dom Soegono, Delen Trance

    Fastly's product packages just got even better. Check out the latest features coming to our Network Services package and more!

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  • Sustainability dashboard: Shine a light on your digital carbon footprint

    Eoghan Kelly

    Fastly's Sustainability dashboard provides instant access to electricity-related Scope 2 & 3 emissions data. Understand and optimize your digital carbon footprint with ease.

    CDN & Delivery
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  • Maximizing Compute Performance with Log Explorer & Insights

    Namit Shivaram

    Monitor and troubleshoot Fastly Compute services with Log Explorer & Insights. Gain granular insights, optimize performance, and debug faster for efficient applications.

    Compute
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  • 2024: End of Year Product Release Rewind

    Leigh Clancy

    We’re always improving the Fastly platform to enable developers, security experts, and more! See an overview of the product releases that we unveiled in 2024.

    CDN & Delivery
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  • Introducing Log Manager & Insights - Now in Beta

    Namit Shivaram

    We are thrilled to announce the launch of Log Manager & Insights, now in beta! Store, inspect, and monitor your log data on the Fastly platform.

    Product
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  • The Beyoncé Drop (and other Super Bowl phenomena)

    Anna MacLachlan

    Last Sunday over 111.9 million viewers tuned in for the Super Bowl. As a CDN, we’re in a unique position — we help companies handle the impact of successful Super Bowl ads, and monitor the results in real time. We thought it might be interesting to share some of the traffic patterns we noticed during the big game.

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  • How the internet reacted to the first presidential debate

    Tyler McMullen

    As a CDN, we’re in a unique position to view traffic patterns: we’re able to get a closer look into traffic trends and spikes as they occur. This year’s presidential debate drew a record number of viewers — here are some of the traffic patterns we observed.

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  • Major moments from the third and final presidential debate

    Tyler McMullen

    This election has garnered an unprecedented amount of attention, and while traffic to media sites increased during the third debate, major moments of engagement (spikes) decreased by 83% as compared to the first debate. Here are some of the traffic patterns we saw.

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  • Election day 2016

    Tyler McMullen

    Although online engagement increases with every election, the 2016 presidential election saw an especially dramatic boost. As surprising polling results rolled in across the nation, voters and global observers turned to trusted media sites to follow the politically polarizing race — here are some of the traffic patterns we observed.

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  • Real-time insights: holiday traffic

    Tyler McMullen

    Our CDN gives us a unique, real-time view of aggregated traffic patterns on the web. With the 2016 holiday shopping season upon us, we took a look at how shoppers have engaged with ecommerce sites — as expected, we saw a 207% increase in traffic as compared to normal at 11 AM ET on Black Friday. But, traffic spikes weren’t isolated to our ecommerce customers. We also saw increased engagement with charity donation sites as well as food-related sites.

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  • Real-time insights: ACLU + Giving Tuesday 2016

    Anna MacLachlan

    The Tuesday after Thanksgiving marks one of the biggest days of the year for donation sites, and giving numbers hit record highs this year. We’ve collaborated with the ACLU to share some hope-inspiring donation data.

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  • The top 10 moments of engagement in 2016

    Tyler McMullen

    2016 was an eventful and emotional year, filled with surprises, cultural losses, tragedies, and the occasional glimmer of hope. Although we looked at 2016 as a whole, we found that the most instant and dramatic spikes in engagement were elicited by moments of global emotion — here’s a look at what we saw.

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  • Engagement disparity: the inauguration & Women’s March

    Tyler McMullen

    There was an uptick in traffic to media sites during the 45th president’s inauguration, but it didn’t compare to the election. Engagement during the weekend of January 20, 2017 in many ways mirrored the crowds — the Women’s March in DC had three times more people than the inauguration, and we saw a corresponding disparity in sustained online engagement. While traffic was high at the beginning of inauguration, it quickly levelled off. On the contrary, engagement during the Women’s March remained high into Saturday evening.

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  • ACLU: exponential engagement following the U.S. election

    Tyler McMullen

    In the months following the recent U.S. election, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has seen a sustained and rapid outpouring of support, reflected in record levels of giving and engagement with aclu.org. Following the first executive orders, we’ve seen exponential spikes in traffic to their website and a swell of donations. Here are the recent traffic patterns we’ve observed.

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  • The Gaga Dive, and other Super Bowl phenomenon

    Tyler McMullen

    The Super Bowl is one of the most-watched events in U.S. television, and presents a unique opportunity for companies to reach prospective customers through clever and well-placed advertising. This year, brands with ads drove an average increase in engagement of 437%, but that wasn’t the only engagement we observed — like last year’s big game, people signed off to watch the kickoff and halftime shows, and music streaming services also saw an increase in engagement as fans rushed to identify songs in commercials.

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  • 2017 holiday insights: biggest Cyber Monday yet

    Tyler McMullen

    Cyber Monday 2017 was the biggest yet, bringing in $6.59 billion in online sales — compared to $5.03 billion on Black Friday, and 16.8% more revenue than Cyber Monday last year. And, this Cyber Monday was the first $2 billion mobile shopping day. Similar to our observations last year, we saw significant increases in traffic to ecommerce sites during the week of Thanksgiving, with traffic climbing to 152% above average in the morning of Cyber Monday. Read on to see what we learned.

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  • How natural disasters meet unprecedented engagement

    Tyler McMullen

    As part of our mission to serve the best of the internet, we’re honored to offer complimentary CDN services to nonprofits, including One America Appeal, Direct Relief, Reporters Without Borders, Khan Academy, and more. Although the fall of 2017 had more than its fair share of natural disasters, we were heartened to learn how people gave (and engaged) with nonprofits. Read on to see what we learned.

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