contentCharacteristics

Delivery Manager name: Content Characteristics
Behavior version: The latest rule format supports the contentCharacteristics behavior v1.1.

Specifies characteristics of the delivered content. Akamai uses this information to optimize your metadata configuration, which may result in better origin offload and end-user performance.

Along with other behaviors whose names are prefixed contentCharacteristics, this behavior is customized for a specific product set. Use PAPI's List available behaviors operation to determine the set available to you. See also the related clientCharacteristics and originCharacteristics behaviors.

Option	Type	Description
`objectSize`	enum	Optimize based on the size of the object retrieved from the origin.	{"displayType":"enum","options":["LESS_THAN_1MB","ONE_MB_TO_TEN_MB","TEN_MB_TO_100_MB","OTHER","UNKNOWN"],"tag":"select"}
	`LESS_THAN_1MB`	Less than 1Mb.
	`ONE_MB_TO_TEN_MB`	1-10 Mb.
	`TEN_MB_TO_100_MB`	10-100 Mb.
	`OTHER`	A fallback value.
	`UNKNOWN`	Defer this optimization.
`popularityDistribution`	enum	Optimize based on the content's expected popularity.	{"displayType":"enum","options":["LONG_TAIL","ALL_POPULAR","OTHER","UNKNOWN"],"tag":"select"}
	`LONG_TAIL`	A low volume of requests over a long period.
	`ALL_POPULAR`	A high volume of requests over a short period.
	`OTHER`	A fallback value.
	`UNKNOWN`	Defer this optimization.
`catalogSize`	enum	Optimize based on the total size of the content library delivered.	{"displayType":"enum","options":["SMALL","MEDIUM","LARGE","EXTRA_LARGE","OTHER","UNKNOWN"],"tag":"select"}
	`SMALL`	Under 100GB.
	`MEDIUM`	100GB-1TB.
	`LARGE`	1TB-100TB.
	`EXTRA_LARGE`	More than 100TB.
	`OTHER`	A fallback value.
	`UNKNOWN`	Defer this optimization.
`contentType`	enum	Optimize based on the type of content.	{"displayType":"enum","options":["USER_GENERATED","WEB_OBJECTS","SOFTWARE","IMAGES","OTHER_OBJECTS","UNKNOWN"],"tag":"select"}
	`USER_GENERATED`	Generally, user-generated media.
	`WEB_OBJECTS`	Generally, media delivered for websites.
	`SOFTWARE`	Software.
	`IMAGES`	Images.
	`OTHER_OBJECTS`	Content that doesn't fall under any of these categories.
	`UNKNOWN`	Defer this optimization.