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Fastly

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Fastly is a powerful edge cloud platform that provides a suite of content delivery network (CDN) services, along with cloud computing and security solutions. It stands out for its real-time purging capabilities, allowing content updates to propagate globally in milliseconds. Fastly's architecture is designed for high performance, supporting both static and dynamic content acceleration. The platform offers advanced features such as instant configuration changes, real-time analytics, and powerful edge computing capabilities through its Compute@Edge service. Fastly also provides robust security solutions, including DDoS mitigation, WAF, and bot protection. With its API-first approach and developer-friendly tools, Fastly is particularly popular among technically sophisticated organizations looking for granular control over their content delivery and edge computing needs. Its ability to handle high-traffic events and complex applications makes it a preferred choice for many large-scale websites and applications.

Fastly belongs toCDNcategory.

57websites

use it — 2.2% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#12of 29

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 69)

36public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

1.81% of all websites we track run Fastly▼ 0.01 points since 20 Sep

At a glance

UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,555 websites · refreshed weekly

How Fastly sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details

44PerformancePooraverage site: 5089AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8979Best practicesFairaverage site: 9392SEOGoodaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about 40% slower than the average site

Fastly sites
6.0 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most Fastly sites load in 4.2–7.2 s. Home page weight: 3.1 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 35 public sites measured.

Where are they hosted?

Mostly Fastly and Amazon Web Services

  • Fastly61%
  • Amazon Web Services14%
  • Google Cloud6%
  • Akamai Technologies3%
  • Other17%
United States 81%Canada 8%KE 3%

Who uses it?

Technology and Software is the biggest group

Technology and Software61%
Business Services14%
Educational Resources11%
Cybersecurity3%

Share of 36 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

How Fastly sites are built

Closest partners. The number says how many times more often the tool runs on Fastly sites than on an average website. Hover a partner for its share of sites.

MariaDB45×Pantheon45×Varnish16×WordPress Block Editor14×Drupal10×6sense7×New Relic6×Nginx6×Yoast SEO Premium6×

Stacks we see most. Tools that tend to run together with Fastly on the same websites. The percentage is the share of all 57 Fastly sites that run the whole stack.

4 stacks · swipe, drag or use the arrows
#1

Fastly + Varnish + WordPress + Yoast SEO + OneTrust

14%8 of 57 sites
#2

Fastly + Varnish + Yoast SEO + WordPress Block Editor + Max Mega Menu

7%4 of 57 sites
#3

Fastly + Varnish + Drupal + Marko

7%4 of 57 sites
#4

Fastly + Varnish + Wistia

7%4 of 57 sites

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 57 Fastly sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Varnish95%Google Tag Manager81%Google Analytics68%Linkedin Insight Tag33%Facebook Pixel19%Yoast SEO42%Yoast SEO Premium18%DoubleClick Floodlight32%Microsoft Advertising23%OneTrust26%WordPress Block Editor21%Qualified18%6sense14%
Speed and cachingTag managerAnalyticsSearch visibilityAdvertisingCookie consentPage builderMarketing

Similar tools in its category

CDN: 69 tools known, 29 seen in our scans

Cloudflare1,035 sitesAlternativeAmazon CloudFront335 sitesAlternativejsDelivr321 sitesAlternativeAkamai205 sitesAlternativeAmazon S3184 sitesAlternativeGoogle Hosted Libraries144 sitesAlternativeUnpkg105 sitesAlternativejQuery CDN89 sitesAlternativecdnjs245 sitesUsed together

How websites combine Fastly with other tools

Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.

Complements another tool 28Integrates with another 23Overlaps with another 8Built on a platform 7Needs another tool 4

Websites using Fastly

57 websites use Fastly: 2.2% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months. A selection is shown below.

Scores are out of 100: P Performance · A Accessibility · B Best practices · S SEO. Green 80+, yellow 65–79, orange 50–64, red below 50. The dot shows whether our last scan found the site failing (red) or not (green); Red, amber or blue: an active incident on the site's status page (outage, degraded, maintenance) or a failing scan; amber also means a certificate ending within 30 days. Hover the dot for details.

Questions about Fastly

How many websites use Fastly?
We found Fastly on 57 of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (2.2%). 36 of them have a public status page.
What is Fastly often used with?
Among the websites we scan, Fastly is often found alongside Varnish (94.7% of its sites), Nginx (89.5% of its sites), MariaDB (87.7% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to Fastly?
Other CDNs we recognize include Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, jsDelivr, cdnjs.

Is your website built with Fastly?

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