Akamai

Name: Akamai adoption
Creator: Installmap
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Akamai in each crawled group, and in the wider sample. Hosting and CDN.

Group	Crawled	Running Akamai	Share
Inc 5000 (2026)	4,886	9	0.2%
Y Combinator companies	5,386	9	0.2%
Fortune 500	472	125	26.5%
Unicorns	1,000	12	1.2%
SaaS companies	8,173	65	0.8%
Tranco top 10,000	1,572	144	9.2%
Wider sample	8,291	23	0.3%

Group rows come from rendered homepage crawls; the wider sample is a plain fetch, so it undercounts tools a tag manager injects after the page loads. <5 means fewer than 5 crawled domains in that group. Method · Hosting and CDN across all groups · Traffic served through Akamai, identified by its transform, grn and server headers.

Detected by: header x-akamai-transformed header akamai-grn

Wider sample

Akamai was detected on 23 of 8,291 company websites drawn from Crunchbase company records, companies with 11 to 1,000 employees. The cuts below divide by each segment's own crawled base.

By industry

Industry	Crawled	Running Akamai	Share
Artificial Intelligence (AI)	1,631	4	0.2%
Financial Services	548	2	0.4%
Biotechnology	521	1	0.2%
Information Technology	503	2	0.4%
Health Care	420	0	0.0%
Apps	395	0	0.0%
Data and Analytics	373	3	0.8%
Commerce and Shopping	347	2	0.6%
Administrative Services	344	0	0.0%
Energy	294	0	0.0%

By employee size band

Size band	Crawled	Running Akamai	Share
11-50	6,249	9	0.1%
51-200	2,042	14	0.7%

By country

Country	Crawled	Running Akamai	Share
United States	5,475	20	0.4%
United Kingdom	803	0	0.0%
Canada	480	2	0.4%
Germany	430	0	0.0%
France	422	1	0.2%
Australia	212	0	0.0%
Netherlands	146	0	0.0%
Sweden	84	0	0.0%
Denmark	75	0	0.0%
Finland	68	0	0.0%

Cite this

Installmap, Akamai adoption, crawl of 2026-09-03, https://installmap.com/tools/akamai.

Canonical URL: https://installmap.com/tools/akamai
Denominator: 23 of 8,291 crawled company websites in the wider sample, a share of 0.3%

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