Real User Monitoring (Classic), or simply "RUM Classic," provides performance monitoring of web pages based on data collected from real end-users. Use it to can gather data about an individual page request, and send that data back to ​Akamai​ for use with other ​Akamai​ services like Adaptive Acceleration or Script Management.

📘

Real User Monitoring (Classic) is being decommissioned

If you have this behavior in your property, update it to use Akamai's mPulse, instead. Talk to your ​Akamai​ account team if you need help.

How it works

RUM Classic injects JavaScript into HTML pages served to end-user clients that monitors page-load performance and reports on various data, such as browser type and geographic location. RUM monitors webpages that contain an HTML head section and use the text/html content type. A content type is a header that describes the file type that follows. The browser uses this information to render the content properly.

For more information about RUM Classic, access its user documentation:

• Real User Monitoring (Classic) user guide
• Real User Monitoring (Classic) reports