Akamai mPulse vs. Google PageSpeed Insights

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akamai mPulse
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
mPulse, from Akamai, is a real-time end-user digital experience monitoring solution (or RUM, for real user monitoring) that enables the user to capture user experience data, optimize website performance, and measure ROI.N/A
Google PageSpeed Insights
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Google PageSpeed Insights is a search engine optimization software solution offered by Google.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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SEO
Comparison of SEO features of Product A and Product B
Akamai mPulse
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Ratings
Google PageSpeed Insights
7.5
5 Ratings
3% below category average
Keyword analysis00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Page grader00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
Competitive analysis00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics00 Ratings9.95 Ratings
Site recommendations00 Ratings9.95 Ratings
Task management00 Ratings6.72 Ratings
SEO Channels
Comparison of SEO Channels features of Product A and Product B
Akamai mPulse
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Ratings
Google PageSpeed Insights
6.3
5 Ratings
19% below category average
Local SEO00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Social SEO00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Mobile SEO00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Global SEO00 Ratings5.43 Ratings
SEO Platform & Account Management
Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Product A and Product B
Akamai mPulse
-
Ratings
Google PageSpeed Insights
8.5
3 Ratings
1% above category average
Multi-domain support00 Ratings9.12 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Akamai mPulseGoogle PageSpeed Insights
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(5 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Akamai mPulseGoogle PageSpeed Insights
Likelihood to Recommend
Akamai
In general, if you manage a website, you must have a real user monitoring tool. mPulse is one of the leaders in the market, so if you use this product, you can count on the reliability of the product itself. Personally, I think that if you need to collect technical KPIs, mPulse is a good choice. If on top of technical metrics, you want to collect also business KPIs, potentially there are other products doing this better.
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Google
If you notice your site is taking a long time to load, then you should first use PageSpeed Insights to see what can quickly be optimized (also check your file sizes, hosting server, NGINX and other common sources of slow speed, too.) And, if you've notice gradually fewer Organic Search visits, PageSpeed Insights might be able to help. As Google is reducing the prevalence of slow sites, you could be losing traffic. Speed up your page load times by finding what is blocking renders, slowing down contentful paints, and other critical page speed signals.
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Pros
Akamai
  • Real time data: you can know in real time how your website is performing.
  • "What if" functionality to choose, from a business point of view, the right web pages to improve
  • Understanding what are the slow pages and seeing the impact on the global performance from a technical and a business point of view.
  • Waterfall functionality - possibility to go in details to a specific session.
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Google
  • Measure page loading time
  • Compared loading times against Google's benchmarks
  • Identifies opportunities for web page performance improvements
  • Identifies sub-optimal web page attributes that slow down page loading
  • Compare performance on mobile and desktop devices easily
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Cons
Akamai
  • The creation of a specific dashboard is not easy. You can leverage the available dashboards but if you need something else is not so easy to achieve.
  • Old UI - the look and feel of the product should be improved. It seems very old.
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Google
  • The suggestions for improvement can be technical for non-developers.
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Usability
Akamai
No answers on this topic
Google
It's a free, easy to use tool
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Support Rating
Akamai
No answers on this topic
Google
There is no support from Google for the tool.
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Alternatives Considered
Akamai
Generally speaking, both products allow you to not be blind on your website. Easily, you can see how your website is performing. At the moment, Blue Triangle is better than Akamai for the business part (there are more business metrics collected and many more available dashboards for consuming this kind of data). Moreover, the look and feel and the usability of the Blue Triangle portal is better than Akamai one.
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Google
I think GTmetrix has some feedback that PageSpeed doesn't provide, but Google's tool is easier overall and has a better user experience; also offers compressed images, CSS, and javascript files if that's the case. Also, Google has extensive documentation to help you better understand what can be done to improve your grade.
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Return on Investment
Akamai
  • Choose the right pages to optimize.
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Google
  • Faster loading site, give results faster to visitors
  • Buyers can get to the end of the buying cycle faster
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