Akamai mPulse and CA App Synthetic Monitor are both leading tools in web performance monitoring. Akamai mPulse seems to have the upper hand with real-user monitoring capabilities.
Features: Akamai mPulse allows for in-depth real-user data collection, visualization, and performance insights. CA App Synthetic Monitor provides comprehensive synthetic transaction monitoring, synthetic alerts, and simulates user interactions.
Room for Improvement: Akamai mPulse could benefit from enhanced customization options, more straightforward data integration, and better data handling. CA App Synthetic Monitor could improve its reporting capabilities, provide more intuitive performance breakdowns, and streamline the setup process.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Akamai mPulse is recognized for its easy deployment process and efficient customer support. CA App Synthetic Monitor faces deployment challenges but has responsive customer service.
Pricing and ROI: Akamai mPulse is noted for competitive pricing and positive ROI. CA App Synthetic Monitor, while having a higher initial setup cost, delivers significant value post-setup.
Akamai mPulse is a real user monitoring (RUM) solution that gives performance engineers, administrators, and developers the ability to effortlessly visualize website functionality issues and identify ways to improve processes that conventional testing protocols do not find. mPulse gives users usable scenarios to better understand how processes such as user interactions, visual progress, and third-party resources may be disrupting the overall user experience and application delivery.
mPulse enables users to take a deep dive into the specific performance issues and complete comprehensive error analyses, to thoroughly understand the effect on critical user interactions such as conversions, page views, and more.
mPulse gathers and delivers data on an organization's website’s performance and metrics on user web browsing experiences. The mPulse feature “Boomerang” is a JavaScript Library that monitors the website page load time. Boomerang has a unique plugin architecture and works with all websites. The Boomerang feature is embedded on each page of an organization's website.
mPulse works seamlessly with Akamai solution Ion, so the RUM data can be instantly gathered once the Luna Control Center has been activated. Ion instantly attaches Boomerang to the organization’s web properties; there is no need to change the website code.
Akamai mPulse Benefits
IT organizations require full visibility into business-critical applications regardless of where they're hosted in order to maintain service levels and proactively deal with issues before the end-user is impacted. CA App Synthetic Monitor uses synthetic transactions to provide performance insight for these applications no matter where they're hosted: outside the firewall, in the cloud or delivered via a managed service provider (MSP). Delivered as software as a service, CA App Synthetic Monitor provides end-to-end transaction response time visibility into cloud, mobile and traditional web applications using synthetic transactions delivered by a network of 95 monitoring stations across six continents, 48 countries, 93 cities and 15 time zones.
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