CDN pioneer Akamai appears to have made a substantial step forward in the analytics game, demonstrating during a company webinar this week how the industry is getting closer to closing the frustrating gap between the lines of monitoring a problem within a network and actually getting around to solving said problem as quickly as possible. Following a major update to Akamai’s mPulse What-If Analysis feature in October, the company is now offering customers the ability to predict key business metrics by modifying or removing components and viewing what the end result on their website, app or stream looks like, in a virtual environment. Faultline Online Reporter has seen a lot of analytics dashboards this year and none have impressed us…