- Property Manager name: Content Characteristics
- Behavior version: The latestrule format supports thecontentCharacteristicsbehavior v1.1.
- Rule format status: Beta, possible breaking changes
- Access: Read/Write
- Allowed in includes: Not available for latestrule format
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 | Requires | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | 
