Akamai mPulse Tag Setup Guide

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You can easily add, implement, and manage the Akamai mPulse JavaScript tag through Tealium iQ. You can then create load rules to determine when and where to trigger this vendor and use the mapping feature to control which data points are shared with Akamai.

Tag configuration

Navigate to the Tag Marketplace to add a new tag. Read the Tag Overview article for general instructions on how to add a tag.

When adding the tag, configure the following settings:

• API Key: The API key supplied by Akamai. This key is the unique identifier for your data.

Advanced settings

These settings are not required for most tags, but are needed for Akamai.

• Set Tag Timing to Prioritized.
  Determines the timing of the tag firing. Prioritized tags fire immediately as utag.js loads.
• Set Synchronous Load Type to No.

If set to Yes, the tag will not fire.

Load rules

Use the following steps to apply load rules:

1. Click Next to advance to the Load Rules tab.
2. From Load Rules, apply the Load on All Pages and Events rule.
   This step is required to enable the tag to be bundled when configuring the Publish settings in the following steps.
3. Click Finish.
4. Click Save in the upper right corner but do not publish.

Configure and publish settings to optimize performance

Use the following steps to configure and publish settings that will optimize tag performance:

1. In the admin menu, click Configure Publish Settings. The Publish Configuration dialog appears.

There are many Publish Settings options described on the Tealium support site. For Akamai mPulse, activate the following two optional settings for Akamai to improve tag performance.

1. From the Publish Configurations dialog, click the General Publishing tab.

2. Scroll down to Performance Optimization and set the Minify Tag Templates and Bundle Tags Loaded on All Pages toggles to ON.

   • Setting the Performance Optimization option to On ensures that any tags that load on the All Pages load rule are included inline in your utag.js file instead of in a separate, numbered file. Although your utag.js file will be larger, it will remove one http request (server call) as the page loads.
   • Setting the Minify Tag Templates option to On applies “minification” to the generated JavaScript, which removes unnecessary whitespace so that the file size downloaded is smaller.

3. Click Apply to close the Publish Settings dialog.

Publishing and testing

As a final step, publish and test your new tag as follows:

1. In the Save/Publish dialog, do not select the Overwrite current version checkbox.

   Using Save As saves your change as a new version, which enables you to roll back your changes if needed.

   After the updated utag.js is loaded to the CDN, Akamai tag will appear in the browser.
2. Use a tag monitor, such as Ghostery, to test that the tag is performing as expected, such as Ghostery. You can use your browser’s network monitoring tool. You will know that the tag is firing correctly if you see the following request:

   

3. Monitor the request at http://c.go-mpulse.net/boomerang.

The key displayed will match the API key you entered when you configured the Akamai mPulse tag.