Overview
Summary
The useful answer before the supporting detail.
Akamai is a cloud computing and cybersecurity company that provides security, compute, and delivery solutions to global enterprises S1. It helps businesses protect their applications and data from threats while delivering content and running code at the edge S12. The platform offers a range of compute options, including CPU and GPU instances, with predictable pricing and global deployment S17 S24.
Product identity and positioning
Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.
- Identity: Akamai Technologies, Inc., a provider of cloud computing and cybersecurity solutions S1 S121.
- Core purpose: To power and protect business online by solving internet challenges S121 S1.
- Intended users: Global enterprises across every sector S1.
- Product scope: A suite of security, compute, and delivery solutions, including cloud compute and GPU services S1 S17 S24.
- Positioning: Akamai positions itself as an industry leader in reliability, scale, and expertise S1.
- Claimed distinction: Market-leading security solutions and superior threat intelligence S1.
Use cases and audiences
Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.
| Audience | Practical use case |
|---|---|
| Global enterprises | Protect critical data and applications with security solutions S1. |
| AI teams | Run AI inference with low-latency GPU compute S24. |
| Media companies | Use GPU instances for video encoding and transcoding S24. |
| Developers | Deploy and manage compute instances via UI, API, CLI, and developer tools S17. |
| Organizations with data localization needs | Maintain seamless customer experiences during high-demand periods S17. |
Traffic and search
SEO analysis
Collected Oct 23, 2026akamai.com: an estimated 1,946,751 total monthly visits and about 427,770 monthly organic visits across 57,045 ranking keywords. Scout crawled 0 pages and measured a technical health score of 0/100.
Search summary
The useful answer before the supporting detail.
akamai.com is the public website evaluated in this SEO report. akamai.com: an estimated 1,946,751 total monthly visits and about 427,770 monthly organic visits across 57,045 ranking keywords. Scout crawled 0 pages and measured a technical health score of 0/100.
- Total traffic (modeled): 1,946,751 monthly visits across all channels.
- Organic search traffic (estimated): 427,770 monthly visits from search.
- Strongest sampled ranking: akamai at position 1.
- Leading page in the collected evidence: https://www.akamai.com/.
- Closest measured organic competitor: meng.uic.edu, appearing 1 times in the sampled first-page SERPs.
- Technical crawl: 0 pages, health score 0/100.
Website intelligence — Collected evidence
Company identity and positioning
| Page type | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|
| trust | Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. | https://www.akamai.com/ |
Domain performance
Modeled total traffic, six-month trend, engagement, countries, and domain identity.
Total website traffic
| Month | Modeled visits |
|---|---|
| 2026-04 | 1,869,122 |
| 2026-05 | 1,860,284 |
| 2026-06 | 2,000,035 |
| 2026-07 | 2,079,042 |
| 2026-08 | 1,985,787 |
| 2026-09 | 1,946,751 |
Top visitor countries
| Country | Name | Traffic share |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States | 34.7% |
| IN | India | 13.4% |
| PL | Poland | 8.3% |
| JP | Japan | 6.1% |
| DE | Germany | 4.0% |
Domain identity
| Signal | Value |
|---|---|
| Registered | Aug 17, 1998 |
| Last changed | Jul 15, 2026 |
| Expires | Aug 16, 2027 |
| WHOIS server | whois.verisign-grs.com |
| DNSSEC | Signed |
| Nameservers | A1-66.AKAM.NET, A11-66.AKAM.NET, A12-66.AKAM.NET, A13-66.AKAM.NET, A16-66.AKAM.NET, A18-66.AKAM.NET, A28-66.AKAM.NET, A3-66.AKAM.NET, A5-66.AKAM.NET, A6-66.AKAM.NET, A7-66.AKAM.NET, A8-66.AKAM.NET |
Website capture

Organic keywords
Top keywords and an independent Google result page.
Top organic keywords
| Keyword | Volume | CPC | Estimated value |
|---|---|---|---|
| akamai | 98,120 | $1.94 | $47,080 |
| aws | 1,463,520 | $0.96 | $10,870 |
| akamai careers | 6,650 | $0.97 | $10,690 |
| akamai technologies | 15,210 | $2.20 | $7,650 |
| google cloud console | 1,318,560 | $7.75 | $5,820 |
Independent Google result page
Query: akamai
| Position | Title | URL | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akamai: Cloud Computing, Security, Content Delivery (CDN) | https://www.akamai.com/ | Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. |
| 2 | Akamai Technologies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies | Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American company specializing in content delivery network (CDN), cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, and cloud services. |
| 3 | Akamai Technologies | https://www.linkedin.com/company/akamai-technologies | Products · Akamai Edge DNS, Managed DNS Services Software · Akamai for DevOps, DevOps Software · Akamai Identity Cloud, Identity & Access Management (IAM) ... |
| 4 | Akamai Technologies | https://x.com/Akamai?lang=en | We power and protect life online. Global companies trust us to build, deliver, and secure digital experiences — helping billions to live, work, and play online. |
| 5 | Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM) Stock Price, News, ... | https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AKAM/ | Akamai's recent news centers on Wall Street upgrades, AI infrastructure expansion, and a debate over whether the stock is undervalued after a sharp pullback ... |
| 6 | Akamai | https://www.carahsoft.com/vendors/akamai | Akamai provides Government organizations with an online delivery platform that significantly improves website/content security, availability, performance, ... |
| 7 | Akamai Status | https://www.akamaistatus.com/ | We can confirm that there are currently no delivery issues and that the network has remained stable since the brief impact observed at approximately 18:23 UTC. |
Important pages
Pages earning the most estimated search traffic in the sample.
Website intelligence — Collected evidence
Prioritized website intelligence pages
| Type | Page | Words | Change | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| trust | Cloud Computing, Security, Content Delivery (CDN) \ | playwright | 1,321 | new |
| pricing | Cloud Computing Pricing \ | playwright | 2,078 | new |
Features
No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.
Pricing and plans
| Page type | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|
| pricing | Akamai Cloud Pricing | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | Cloud pricing that scales with you, with the lowest data transfer costs in the market | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | Tell us what you need. We'll handle the pricing. | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | View pricing | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | View pricing | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | View pricing | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | View pricing | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | Add SSD-backed, persistent volumes to any instance and pay per gigabyte, so you can scale your storage without resizing to a larger compute plan. | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | View pricing | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | Support your AI, CDN origin, and web apps using an S3-compatible solution, with per-gigabyte pricing and free outbound network transfer every month before overage. | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | View pricing | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | View pricing | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | View pricing | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | Run fully managed MySQL clusters billed at a monthly rate set by plan size and node count. | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | View pricing | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | Run fully managed PostgreSQL clusters billed at a monthly rate set by plan size and node count. | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | Run fully managed Valkey clusters billed at an hourly or monthly rate set by plan size and node count. | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | View pricing | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | Enroll in a Managed Service from an existing account with no obligation or contract for $100 per compute instance, per month. | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
| pricing | How does hourly billing work? | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
Integrations and supported platforms
No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.
Product and company updates
No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.
Rank tracking
Persistent keyword baselines and position movement.
This analysis created the first position baseline at 2026-10-23T17:43:18.569Z. Movement appears after the next fresh analysis using the same location and language.
Features
Features and capabilities
Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.
| Capability | What it does |
|---|---|
| Compute instances | Deploy shared, dedicated, or high-memory CPU plans to match application needs S17. |
| GPU instances | Access NVIDIA GPUs for AI inference, rendering, and media workloads S24. |
| Managed Kubernetes | Add compute or GPU nodes to managed Kubernetes clusters with LKE S17 S24. |
| Block Storage | Attach block storage volumes to add capacity to compute instances S17. |
| Backups | Configure automated daily, weekly, and biweekly snapshots to retain data S24. |
| API Security | Gain visibility into API estates with continuous detection and real-time analysis S12. |
| Bot Management | Detect and mitigate sophisticated bad bots while allowing good bots S12. |
Integrations and ecosystem
Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.
| Integration or interface | Type | What it enables |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes (LKE) | Integration | Add compute or GPU nodes to managed Kubernetes clusters S17 S24. |
| API | API | Manage infrastructure programmatically S17. |
| CLI | API | Manage infrastructure from the command line S17. |
| Cloud Manager UI | Interface | Create and manage compute instances through a web interface S17. |
| NVIDIA CUDA toolkit | SDK | Install CUDA to get started with GPU workloads S24. |
| OpenCode and Open WebUI | Integration | Run AI models with ready-to-use tools S24. |
Pricing
Pricing and plans
Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.
| Plan or offer | Verified price and billing | Included | Limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shared CPU | Starting at $5 per month S17 | Transfer allowance starting at 1 TB for 1 GB instance S17 | Not established |
| Dedicated CPU | Starting at $36 per month S17 | Dedicated CPU allocation S17 | Not established |
| High Memory | Starting at $60 per month S17 | Dedicated CPU allocation S17 | Not established |
| GPU | Flexible pricing, not established S24 | Not established | Not established |
| Cloud credits | Up to US$5,000 in cloud credits S17 | Not established | Qualification required S17 |
| Egress | US$0.005 per GB in most regions S24 | Not established | Not established |
Competition
Competitive landscape
Domains competing for the same organic search demand.
Sampled competitors
| Competitor | First-page appearances | Sampled queries | Average position | Queries observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| meng.uic.edu | 1 | 1 | 1 | ai and technology |
| en.wikipedia.org | 1 | 1 | 2 | akamai |
| news.mit.edu | 1 | 1 | 2 | ai and technology |
| linkedin.com | 1 | 1 | 3 | akamai |
| workday.com | 1 | 1 | 3 | ai and technology |
| x.com | 1 | 1 | 4 | akamai |
| comidor.com | 1 | 1 | 4 | ai and technology |
| finance.yahoo.com | 1 | 1 | 5 | akamai |
| techtarget.com | 1 | 1 | 5 | ai and technology |
| carahsoft.com | 1 | 1 | 6 | akamai |
Website intelligence — Collected evidence
Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims
No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.
Independent review sources discovered
No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.
AI visibility
Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.
AI-assistant referral traffic
- Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 1.0%
| Month | Traffic share | Source |
|---|---|---|
| — | — | All AI assistants |
| — | — | All AI assistants |
| — | — | All AI assistants |
Website intelligence — Collected evidence
Site-stated AI capabilities
| Page type | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|
| pricing | Support your AI, CDN origin, and web apps using an S3-compatible solution, with per-gigabyte pricing and free outbound network transfer every month before overage. | https://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricing |
These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.
Marketing opportunities
Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.
| Opportunity | Recommended action | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Competitor gap | Review the sampled queries where meng.uic.edu appears. | 1 first-page appearances across ai and technology |
Website intelligence — Collected evidence
Website evidence gaps
- features: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
- integrations: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
- customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
- reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
- changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
- identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
- technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
Trust and proof
Customers, proof, and reviews
Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.
Independent reviews
No citation-grounded independent review links were found.
Customer proof
No named customers, testimonials, or customer case studies were found.
Independent mentions
- Cloud Computing, Security, Content Delivery (CDN) / Akamai — Cloud Computing, Security, Content Delivery (CDN) / Akamai ... ## Everywhere you do business, Akamai is there Get the performance, reliability, and security your business demands with the world’s most distributed cloud computing platform and edge network. ... ## Build applications anywhere. Secure and scale them everywhere. ... ### Cloud computing Build powerful applications with flexible and affordable full-stack compute services. ... ### Security Secure your applications and data at every touc
- Akamai - AVANT — Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense in depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai’s full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world’s most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and expertise
- Cloud Computing, Security, Content Delivery (CDN) Solutions / Akamai — Cloud Computing, Security, Content Delivery (CDN) Solutions / Akamai ... ## Build applications anywhere. Secure and scale them everywhere. ... ### Cloud computing Build powerful applications with flexible and affordable full-stack ... ### Security Secure your applications and data at every touchpoint, without compromising performance. ... ### Content delivery Flawlessly deliver apps and experiences closer to your customers, wherever they connect.
- akamai.com at WI. Cloud Computing, Security, Content Delivery (CDN) / Akamai — #### About Website Updated: May 17, 2026 Cloud Computing, Security, Content Delivery (CDN) / Akamai Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. ... -66.akam.net, a6-66.akam.net, a7-66.akam
- Akamai Technologies - StarLink — and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences — helping billions ... Cloud, a massively distributed edge and cloud platform, puts apps and experiences closer to users and keeps
- Akamai — Cloud, Cybersecurity, and CDN Platform - seeksvc — Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Its product areas are Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, and Content Delivery (CDN). Cloud Computing includes GPU and CPU compute, Kubernetes, serverless, Object Storage, Block Storage, Managed Databases, and Private Networking. Cybersecurity includes API Security, App & API Protector, DDoS protection, zero trust security, and Akamai Guardicore Segmentation. Content Delivery includes application perfor
- Akamai.com. Cloud computing, security, content delivery (cdn) — .com. Cloud computing, security, content delivery (cdn) ## Cloud computing, security, content delivery (cdn) Akamai connected cloud is a massively distributed edge and cloud platform that keeps experiences closer to users — and threats farther away.
- Akamai.com. Cloud computing, security, content delivery (cdn) — .com. Cloud computing, security, content delivery (cdn) ## Cloud computing, security, content delivery (cdn) Akamai connected cloud is a massively distributed edge and cloud platform that keeps experiences closer to users — and threats farther away.
External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.
Company, security, and trust
Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.
| Signal | Finding | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Company and ownership | Year Incorporated: 1998 | source |
| Contact and support | / Access 24/7/365 email and phone support for all customers / Starting price: $36 per month / Starting price: $5 per month / Starting price: $60 per month / | source |
| Legal and privacy | We use cookies to ensure the fast reliable and secure operation of this website, to improve your website experience, to enable certain social media interactions, to enable our AI sales representative chatbot (KAI) and to | source |
| Security and compliance | Privacy Trust Center | source |
| Uptime and status page | Choose from right-sized Shared CPU, Dedicated CPU, and High Memory compute instances for everything from stateful application infrastructure to lightweight ephemeral workloads. Deploy via Cloud Manager UI, our API, CLI, | source |
| Domain registered | 1998-08-17 | — |
| Domain expires | 2027-08-16 | — |
Every trust signal above is backed by a collected page or a registration record.
Documentation and product updates
Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.
Not established in the collected sources.
Technical
Technical and delivery signals
Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.
| Signal | Finding | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension) | Cloud-based services S121. | S121 |
| Platforms and apps | Web-based management via Cloud Manager UI S17. | S17 |
| API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins) | Offers API, CLI, and developer tool integrations S17. | S17 |
| Data ownership and export | Not published on the collected pages. | — |
| Performance and reliability claims | 99.99% guaranteed uptime S17. | S17 |
| Release activity | Not published on the collected pages. | — |
Measured infrastructure
Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.
| Signal | Finding |
|---|---|
| Domain registered | 1998-08-17 — MarkMonitor Inc. |
| Domain expires | 2027-08-16 |
| First archived | 1999-11-22 — web archive |
| TLS certificate | DigiCert Inc, valid, expires 2027-04-20 |
| Security headers | HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options |
| Headers not served | CSP, Referrer-Policy |
| Mail handled by | mxb-00190b01.gslb.pphosted.com, mxa-00190b01.gslb.pphosted.com |
| Nameservers | a7-66.akam.net, a11-66.akam.net |
Technical site audit
A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.
Scout — Bounded technical crawl
- Pages crawled: 0 of 15 maximum
- Technical health: 0/100
- Critical issues: 0
- Warnings: 0
- Notices: 0
Issues
The bounded crawl did not detect title, description, H1, canonical, indexing, thin-content, image-alt, response-time, or duplicate-metadata issues.
Crawled pages
The website did not return crawlable HTML pages.
This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.
Search Console and Analytics
First-party search and behavioral data connection state.
Modeled acquisition channels
| Channel | Estimated share |
|---|---|
| direct | 50.5% |
| search | 20.5% |
| search organic | 14.7% |
| search paid | 5.7% |
| social | 5.4% |
| social organic | 4.5% |
| social paid | 1.0% |
| referrals | 15.3% |
| paid referrals | 3.2% |
| 3.8% | |
| gen ai | 1.0% |
| affiliate | 0.2% |
| other | 0.0% |
First-party connections
| Integration | Status | Data available after connection |
|---|---|---|
| Google Search Console | Not connected | Clicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices |
| Google Analytics | Not connected | Organic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices |
No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.
Limits and method
Limitations and open questions
Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.
The collected pages do not mention specific competitors. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed pricing for GPU plans, no public CDN pricing, and no information on data ownership or export policies. Open questions remain about the full scope of the product portfolio and specific customer outcomes beyond the two named stories.
Sources, method, and limitations
Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.
This report is based on 7 collected pages from akamai.com, including product pages, an about page, and a glossary. The static provider was blocked, but browser rendering rendered 8 pages. External proof search was used to verify a customer story. Pricing information was supplemented by an authoritative pricing table from the content delivery network page. Limitations include incomplete coverage of the full product portfolio and lack of independent review data.
- Official Websitehttps://www.akamai.com/Verified
- Official Websitehttps://www.akamai.com/companyVerified
- Official Websitehttps://www.akamai.com/productsVerified
- Official Websitehttps://www.akamai.com/products/cpuVerified
- Official Websitehttps://www.akamai.com/products/gpuVerified
- Official Websitehttps://www.akamai.com/glossary/what-is-ddosVerified
- Pricing Pagehttps://www.akamai.com/cloud/pricingVerified
- Articlehttps://goavant.net/providers/akamai/Verified
- Articlehttps://www.akamai.com/solutionsVerified
- Articlehttps://website.informer.com/akamai.comVerified
- Articlehttps://www.starlinkme.net/vendors/akamai-technologies/140Verified
- Articlehttps://seeksvc.com/tools/cloud-computing-security-content-delivery-cdnVerified
- Articlehttps://keywordspace.com/site-info/akamai.comVerified
- Articlehttps://keyoptimize.com/site-info/akamai.comVerified
- Articlehttps://links.giveawayoftheday.com/akamai.comVerified
- Articlehttps://parse.gl/brands/akamai-com?sector=artificial-intelligenceVerified
