How many Akamai websites did you analyze?

12 sites using Akamai. Each one ran the full diagnostic — PageSpeed, SEO checks, SSL verification, and full tech-stack detection.

Akamai sites in our sample average 56/100 on Google PageSpeed with an LCP of 12.0s. Performance depends more on how the site is configured than on the platform itself — we see fast and slow Akamai sites in every industry we track.

What industries use Akamai the most?

Akamai is most common in car rental (2 sites in our sample). Full breakdown is in the Adoption by industry section above.

How do I know if Akamai is right for my website?

Run the free audit on this page. You'll get your own site's performance scored against the Akamai benchmark, so you can see whether your current stack is costing you speed or SEO rankings.

CDN

Akamai website performance

Average page takes 12.0s to render its main content — 9.5s over Google's passing threshold.

Data as of April 202612 sites analyzed

At a glance

Average scores across 12 Akamai sites

Performance

SEO

Accessibility

Core Web Vitals

How Akamai sites perform in the real world

Avg. LCP

12.0s

Google's Good: < 2.5s

Avg. FCP

4.0s

Good: < 1.8s

Avg. CLS

0.078

Good: < 0.1

Avg. TTFB

0.0s

Good: < 0.8s

Performance spread

How Akamai sites cluster on page speed

PageSpeed scores grouped into Google's tier labels. The shape of the distribution tells you whether the industry average hides a few great outliers — or a long tail of broken sites.

Critical0–49
33.3%
Needs work50–69
33.3%
Decent70–89
33.3%
Good90–100
0.0%

Heavy on the slow side: 67% of sites score below 70. Speed is the differentiator most of this market hasn't invested in yet.

Adoption by industry

Where Akamai shows up most

Top industries running this stack, based on the diagnostic sample.

Quick wins

The fixes that would move most Akamai sites forward

Ranked by how often we saw each issue across 12 sites. If yours has these, every competitor with them fixed is beating you on something Google measures.

01
49 broken links
Found on 75% of sitesSecuritymedium impact
02
Main content takes too long to appear
Found on 66.7% of sitesSpeedhigh impact
03
1 pages share the same title
Found on 58.3% of sitesSEOmedium impact
04
No sitemap found
Found on 33.3% of sitesSEOhigh impact
05
No robots.txt found
Found on 25% of sitesSEOhigh impact

FAQ

Common questions

How we fix it

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Speed + Core Web Vitals
Image compression, caching, lazy loading, render-blocking cleanup — the fixes the benchmark above flagged.
On-page SEO + structured data
Meta tags, canonicals, schema markup, internal linking — every signal Google's crawler expects, audited and fixed.
Conversion rate + mobile UX
CTAs, forms, microcopy, mobile layout. Turn the traffic you're already getting into leads and customers.

The diagnostic engine is the same one we ship for product and agency clients

Is Akamai working for your site?

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