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Edge & CDN · Reviewed 27 Oct 2026

Fastly

Fastly is an edge cloud platform for delivering, securing, and computing at the edge.

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Fastly at a glance
305.5KEstimated total trafficModeled monthly visits22.4KRanking keywordsPublic search sample92/100Technical health15 pages checked0Referring domainsLive backlink summary

Overview

01

Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

Fastly is an edge cloud platform that helps companies deliver fast, secure, and reliable digital experiences S80. It is used by developers, security teams, and digital businesses that need high performance, strong security, and flexibility S80. The platform provides a modern CDN, edge compute, and security solutions, enabling users to run, secure, and deliver websites and applications closer to users S1.

02

Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: Fastly is an edge cloud platform offering CDN, security, and edge compute services S80.
  • Core purpose: Solves performance, scalability, and complexity challenges for web and app delivery S80.
  • Intended users: Developers, security teams, and digital businesses S80.
  • Product scope: A platform with CDN, edge compute, and security products, not a single app S80.
  • Positioning: Positioned as a programmable, real-time edge platform for modern internet architecture S1.
  • Claimed distinction: Claims faster load times and stronger app security compared to Cloudflare S1.
03

Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
Media brandsDeliver live and on-demand entertainment at scale S1.
EcommerceImprove site performance and reduce egress costs S12.
DevelopersBuild and deploy applications at the edge with SDKs S14.
Security teamsProtect apps and APIs from AI-scale threats S1.

Features

09

Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
CDNDelivers content and applications with caching at the edge, including dynamic content S12.
Edge ComputeRuns code milliseconds from users, enabling execution at the edge S1.
SecurityProvides DDoS protection, next-gen WAF, and bot management S12.
Real-time configurationAllows developers to control configuration in real-time via API or UI S12.
Log streamingStreams logs in real-time to monitoring platforms S14.
Instant PurgeClears content from cache instantly for rapid updates S12.
10

Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
RESTful APIAPIProvides access to all Fastly services and accounts S14.
Developer SDKsSDKAllows building applications for Compute in various languages S14.
Real-time log streamingIntegrationSends logs to popular monitoring platforms S14.
TerraformIntegrationEnables infrastructure as code for configuration S12.
CI/CD toolsIntegrationSeamless integration with CI/CD cycles and DevOps tools S12.

Pricing

11

Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
Free$0 per month S162100 GB bandwidth and 1M requests for Full Site Delivery S162Not established
Growth (usage based)$0.12–$0.28 per GB, pay as you go S162Not establishedNorth America and Europe $0.12, India and Africa $0.28 (100 GB–10 TB); requests $0.01 per 10,000 after 1M S162
EnterpriseContact sales S162Custom pricing and expert support S162Not established
Basic$1,500 per month S162100M requests, 20 TLS domains, 30M image requests S162Not established
Starter$6,000 per month S162500M requests, 40 TLS domains, 150M image requests S162Not established
AdvantageContact sales S1622B requests, 80 TLS domains, 800M image requests S162Not established
UltimateContact sales S1625B requests, 150 TLS domains, 2.5B image requests S162Not established
Compute Starter$500 per month S162500M requests, 5B vCPU ms S162Not established

Competition

12

Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
ioriver.io212.5cdn cache
cloudflare.com213.5cdn cache
youtube.com215bot scammer
digitalwellnesslab.org111bot scammer
eftsure.com112bot scammer
reddit.com113bot scammer
cloudoptimo.com113cdn cache
mcafee.com115bot scammer
wedos.protection116cdn cache
blog.brandbastion.com117bot scammer

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.

13

AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 0.9%
MonthSource
—All AI assistants
—All AI assistants
—All AI assistants

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

Page typeEvidenceSource
otherScale AI systems, protect your content from bots, and run your edge with natural language — all on one programmable platform.https://www.fastly.com/
otherOne platform to build, secure, and deliver your apps, AI, and data.https://www.fastly.com/
featuresScale AI systems, protect your content from bots, and run your edge with natural language — all on one programmable platform.https://www.fastly.com/fastly-platform
featuresScale AI systems, protect your content from bots, and run your edge with natural language — all on one programmable platform.https://www.fastly.com/solutions
featuresScale AI systems, protect your content from bots, and run your edge with natural language — all on one programmable platform.https://www.fastly.com/solutions/customer-trust
featuresScale AI systems, protect your content from bots, and run your edge with natural language — all on one programmable platform.https://www.fastly.com/solutions/emerging-media
featuresScale AI systems, protect your content from bots, and run your edge with natural language — all on one programmable platform.https://www.fastly.com/solutions/finance
featuresScale AI systems, protect your content from bots, and run your edge with natural language — all on one programmable platform.https://www.fastly.com/fastly-platform
featuresSecureProtect apps and APIs from AI-scale threatshttps://www.fastly.com/fastly-platform
featuresScale AI systems, protect your content from bots, and run your edge with natural language — all on one programmable platform.https://www.fastly.com/solutions
featuresSecureProtect apps and APIs from AI-scale threatshttps://www.fastly.com/solutions
featuresScale AI systems, protect your content from bots, and run your edge with natural language — all on one programmable platform.https://www.fastly.com/solutions/customer-trust
featuresSecureProtect apps and APIs from AI-scale threatshttps://www.fastly.com/solutions/customer-trust
featuresScale AI systems, protect your content from bots, and run your edge with natural language — all on one programmable platform.https://www.fastly.com/solutions/emerging-media
featuresSecureProtect apps and APIs from AI-scale threatshttps://www.fastly.com/solutions/emerging-media
pricingFastly AI Accelerator is an easy to implement, API-compatible product that adds semantic caching to popular LLM provider APIs used to process AI workloads. It is sold as an add-on in addition to Fastly services, with simple monthly usage pricing based on Requests:https://www.fastly.com/legacy-pricing

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

14

Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Competitor gapReview the sampled queries where ioriver.io appears.2 first-page appearances across cdn cache

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • 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

15

Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

PlatformPageHow it was foundNote
AWS Marketplace / G2 / PeerSpotFastly Edge Cloud PlatformGrounded web search### Ratings and reviews ... 90 external reviews External reviews are from G2 and PeerSpot. ... #### Fastly Managed CDN : Fast, Reliable and Affordable ... It makes my website faster globally in an easy and affordable way. The dashboard is easy to get by and I can easily manage things like traffic, caching etc with just a few clicks. Loading pages is buttery smooth. What do you dislike about the product? ... I wish I had a little bit more control over the underlying configuration. Its lack of cus
Try or ByeFastly Problems & Issues 2026 - Expensive CDN ExposedGrounded web search$50 monthly minimum makes it expensive for small sites Fastly requires a $50/month minimum spend, making it prohibitively expensive for small websites, hobby projects, or startups with low traffic. Competitors like Cloudflare offer generous free tiers. This minimum means Fastly is only cost-effective for sites with significant traffic. Impact: 8/10 Reported 9x Negative via Reddit (55 sources) hidden costs ... Costs can get quickly out of control as you grow Reddit users consistently warn that 'F
PeerSpotFastly: Pros and Cons 2026Grounded web search-generation WAF with rapid configuration deployment, making it valuable for its Compute@Edge features. The setup phase is straightforward, and rate limiting offers protection against ... , and higher pricing pose challenges. Improvements are needed in

Customer proof

Proof typeNamed customer or sourceEvidence
Case studyGitHubcustomer case study — GitHub, the easiest way for developers to write software together, has scaled into a collaboration of 5.8 million developers across more than 12 million repositories worldwide. (Github : Case Study / Fastly)
Case studyLaunchDarklycustomer case study — is a feature management platform that helps enterprises deploy new features more quickly while minimizing ... (LaunchDarkly + Fastly case study / Fastly)
Case studyfastly.comcustomer case study — the end of 2016, Yelp had about 89 million unique monthly visitors on mobile and 73 million unique ... (Yelp : Case Study / Fastly)
Case studyfastly.comcustomer case study — , USA TODAY Co. (USA TODAY Co. + Fastly case study / Fastly)

Independent mentions

  • Fastly CDN is down (affecting Reddit, GitHub, SO, ...) / Hacker News — parent / prev – ) ... websites use them according to BuiltWith, lots of big names there! ... =up&goto=item?id=27432423 ... rather thanks to planning) we didn't rely on a cloud service to
  • Customer Stories & Case Studies / Fastly — # Innovative customers choose Fastly Read Fastly customer case studies and stories showcasing edge cloud performance, CDN acceleration, API protection, bot management, and modern application security. ... Magnolia cuts up to 60% operational costs while

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.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipWe value our customers — which is why we respect privacy, and don’t exploit customer data or end user data. And our team is available to help along the way via our support center.source
Contact and supportNot published on the collected pages.—
Legal and privacyBy visiting our website you agree to the use of first and third-party tracking technologies (such as cookies) to give you a better, more personalized experience, and to give us important data to keep things running smootsource
Security and complianceNot published on the collected pages.—
Uptime and status pageContinuous performance at scale is in our DNA. The Fastly Intelligent Network empowers your digital experiences, ensures flawless delivery, maximum uptime and provides robust security without performance tradeoffs.source
Domain registered2002-07-08—
Domain expires2027-07-08—

Not found on the collected pages: contact and support, security and compliance. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

17

Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
Fastly DocumentationDocumentationEverything you need to build on Fastly (source)Not dated
Contact and supportSupportPublic contact and support channel. (source)Not dated
Billing / Fastly DocumentationGuideUnderstand your Fastly bill, keep track of what you're using and what it's costing you, and make changes to what you're buying. (source)Not dated
About the Billing menu / Fastly DocumentationGuideTo access billing-related detail for your account, go to Account > Billing. This menu provides options that allow you to review and… (source)Not dated
About the Billing overview page / Fastly DocumentationGuideThe Billing overview page allows you to view general billing information and bill-related metrics for your account broken down by product… (source)Not dated
About the charges on your bill / Fastly DocumentationGuideWe bill you as specified in your applicable ordering document. Unless otherwise specified, we will bill you monthly according to that month… (source)Not dated
About the Plan usage page / Fastly DocumentationGuideThe Plan usage page allows you to view your account usage metrics broken down by product and region over key, monthly timeframes, up to… (source)Not dated
About the Spend alert page / Fastly DocumentationGuideThe Spend alert page allows you to configure a spend alert for your account by specifying a target dollar amount you'd like to be alerted… (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

18

Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Fastly is a cloud-based edge platform S80.S80
Platforms and appsAccessible via web interface and API S14.S14
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)Provides RESTful API and SDKs for Compute S14.S14
Data ownership and exportNot published on the collected pages.—
Performance and reliability claimsClaims 24% faster load times and 33% better TTFB than Cloudflare S1.S1
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
19

Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
Domain registered2002-07-08 — MarkMonitor Inc.
Domain expires2027-07-08
First archived2001-03-01 — web archive
TLS certificateCertainly, valid, expires 2026-11-03
Security headersHSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options
Headers not servedCSP, Referrer-Policy
Server headerArtisanal bits
Mail handled byaspmx.l.google.com, alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
Nameserversoak.fastlydns.org, edns1.ultradns.com
20

Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 92/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 18
  • Notices: 18

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed6https://www.fastly.com/
noticeImages are missing alt text25https://www.fastly.com/
warningSlow HTML response4429https://www.fastly.com/
warningTitle length should be reviewed106https://www.fastly.com/blog/fastlys-proactive-protection-critical-php-rce-cve-2026-109618
noticeImages are missing alt text11https://www.fastly.com/blog/fastlys-proactive-protection-critical-php-rce-cve-2026-109618
warningTitle length should be reviewed6https://manage.fastly.com/
warningMissing meta description—https://manage.fastly.com/
warningPage should have one primary H10https://manage.fastly.com/
warningMissing canonical URL—https://manage.fastly.com/
noticeLow visible word count0https://manage.fastly.com/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed6https://www.fastly.com/
noticeImages are missing alt text25https://www.fastly.com/
noticeImages are missing alt text10https://www.fastly.com/pricing
warningMissing meta description—https://www.fastly.com/signup
warningPage should have one primary H10https://www.fastly.com/signup
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.fastly.com/signup
noticeLow visible word count46https://www.fastly.com/signup
warningMissing meta description—https://www.fastly.com/contact-sales
warningPage should have one primary H10https://www.fastly.com/contact-sales
warningMissing canonical URL—https://www.fastly.com/contact-sales
noticeLow visible word count46https://www.fastly.com/contact-sales
noticeImages are missing alt text32https://www.fastly.com/ai-hub
noticeImages are missing alt text47https://www.fastly.com/products/deliver
noticeImages are missing alt text36https://www.fastly.com/products/secure
noticeImages are missing alt text39https://www.fastly.com/products/deploy
noticeImages are missing alt text22https://www.fastly.com/products/observe
noticeImages are missing alt text19https://www.fastly.com/services/professional-services
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed196https://www.fastly.com/services/managed-cdn
noticeImages are missing alt text12https://www.fastly.com/services/managed-cdn
noticeImages are missing alt text18https://www.fastly.com/services/managed-security-service
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.fastly.com/
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.fastly.com/
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.fastly.com/signup
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.fastly.com/contact-sales
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.fastly.com/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.fastly.com/

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200Powering the best of the internet \Fastly117344,429 ms
200Fastly’s Proactive Protection for PHP2Shell, Critical PHP RCE CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 \Fastly13179227 ms
200Fastly00206 mshttps://manage.fastly.com/
200Powering the best of the internet \Fastly1173410 ms
200Explore Fastly Pricing Tiers and Package Options \Fastly13129238 ms
200Client Challenge0463 mshttps://www.fastly.com/signup
200Client Challenge04610 mshttps://www.fastly.com/contact-sales
200Fastly for AI \Govern. Control. Protect. \Fastly12046
200Content Delivery Platform \Fastly12483401 ms
200Security Platform \Fastly12108254 ms
200Edge Computing & Serverless Platform \Fastly12295199 ms
200Real-Time Observability & Edge Visibility Platform \Fastly11710260 ms
200Professional Services \Fastly11298325 ms
200Fastly Managed CDN \Fastly11152194 ms
20024/7 Managed Security Services \Fastly12111242 ms

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

21

Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct41.0%
search29.5%
search organic27.9%
search paid1.6%
social9.4%
social organic8.9%
social paid0.4%
referrals15.2%
paid referrals3.1%
mail0.9%
gen ai0.9%
affiliate0.0%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic 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

22

Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages do not mention specific limitations or gaps. Fastly compares itself to Cloudflare, claiming performance advantages S1. Pricing details for some plans require contacting sales S162. Specific customer names and detailed case studies are not provided in the collected evidence.

23

Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from fastly.com, including product pages, documentation, and pricing pages. The evidence catalog includes 180 entries from these pages. External proof search was enabled but no verification requests were made. The report relies on first-party evidence; external review profiles were not scraped.

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