Fastly CDN Overview

Fastly-cdn enhances customer experience by speeding up dynamic content delivery. Event-driven and unpredictable content is efficiently cached by Fastly's cloud CDN.

Use Cases

Customers recommend Advertisement, Workflow Management, Forecasting, as the business use cases that they have been most satisfied with while using Fastly CDN.

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Business Priorities

Enhance Customer Relationships and Acquire Customers are the most popular business priorities that customers and associates have achieved using Fastly CDN.

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Fastly CDN Use-Cases and Business Priorities: Customer Satisfaction Data

Fastly CDN works with different mediums / channels such as Website.

Fastly CDN, belong to a category of solutions that help Content Management Systems. Each of them excels in different abilities. Therefore, determining the best platform for your business will depend on your specific needs and requirements.

Comprehensive Insights on Fastly CDN Use Cases

Case Studies

Internet

CASE STUDY Yelp

Fastly helps Yelp deliver fast, secure, and reliable experiences for millions of users worldwide. Yelp uses Fastly’s CDN to cache pages, accelerate dynamic content, and enable real-time updates for r...eviews. Fastly’s DDoS mitigation and TLS termination protect user data and keep the site secure. Yelp’s engineering team benefits from real-time analytics and quick configuration changes, supporting agile workflows. Yelp reports faster time to first byte and improved performance, especially for users far from their servers.

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Design

CASE STUDY WIRED

Fastly helped WIRED launch a new, faster website with real-time content updates. WIRED used Fastly to make instant configuration changes and improve site performance. During high-traffic events, Fast...ly's caching features let WIRED serve live blog updates quickly and reliably. Fastly's support team ensured a smooth transition during the site redesign. WIRED saw faster page load times and better reader experience worldwide. Editors gained more control over how content is served.

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Design

CASE STUDY wikiHow

Fastly helps wikiHow deliver fast, reliable content to over 150 million monthly visitors. wikiHow uses Fastly’s edge cloud network for content delivery, DDoS mitigation, real-time logging, and shield...ing. When a wikiHow article went viral, traffic spiked 1540x, but Fastly’s CDN kept performance high. Fastly’s features let wikiHow update articles in real time and serve mobile users quickly. Real-time logging gives wikiHow deep insights into user behavior and site performance.

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Design

CASE STUDY Wenner Media

Fastly helped Wenner Media improve site uptime and resilience for its brands like Rolling Stone and Us Weekly. Wenner faced frequent site outages during high-traffic events, risking ad revenue and us...er experience. Fastly enabled instant editorial updates, real-time analytics, and flexible CDN configuration changes. Wenner achieved 75% savings in overall operations costs. The new site is faster, more mobile friendly, and allows rapid content updates during major news events.

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Retail

CASE STUDY Wayfair

Fastly helped Wayfair improve site performance and reduce bandwidth costs. Wayfair needed a CDN with consistent performance, low latency, and strong support. Fastly let Wayfair use custom caching rul...es for millions of product images. This made the customer experience faster and more reliable. Wayfair praised Fastly’s responsive support and ability to scale as the company grew.

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Internet

CASE STUDY Yottaa

Fastly's edge cloud platform helped Yottaa improve e-commerce website speed and security. Yottaa moved from its own infrastructure to Fastly's CDN, Compute, Next-Gen WAF, and Image Optimizer. This ch...ange led to a 40% improvement in time to first byte, 36% better start render, 20% faster page load, 8.8% higher overall conversion, and 15% more mobile conversions for clients. Fastly's tools also made security easier and freed up Yottaa's resources for new features.

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Fastly Inc News

Awards

Fastly earns seventh consecutive Gartner choice for cloud WAAP

Fastly has been recognized as a 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP), marking its seventh consecutive year receiving this honor. Fastly achieved a 4.8 out of 5-star rating from 130 verified reviews. Customers praised Fastly's Next-Gen Web Application Firewall for its robust security capabilities, including DDoS mitigation and bot management. Fastly's Chief Customer Officer highlighted ongoing innovations in their WAAP portfolio.

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Awards

Fastly's Seven Years of Recognition as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers Choice

Fastly has been recognized as a Customers' Choice in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights for Cloud Web Application and API Protection for seven consecutive years. The recognition is based on 130 customer reviews, highlighting Fastly's Next-Gen WAF's effectiveness and reliability. Customers praise its security features, transparency, and ability to meet security goals without issues.

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Partnership

Fastly + Scalepost: Extending the Fastly platform to manage AI Crawlers

Fastly has partnered with ScalePost to enhance its platform's ability to manage AI crawlers. This collaboration allows publishers to gain visibility into how their content is used in AI-generated answers, providing insights into AI search footprints and enabling better content management. Fastly's edge-native architecture supports real-time log streaming, offering transparency and control over AI bot traffic.

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Awards

Fastly DDoS Protection wins SiliconANGLE TechForward Cloud Security Award

Fastly's DDoS Protection solution has won the SiliconANGLE TechForward Cloud Security Award. The award recognizes Fastly's innovative approach to combating application DDoS attacks, featuring rapid deployment, adaptive threat mitigation, and a robust network capacity of 462 Tbps. The solution is praised for its ability to distinguish legitimate traffic spikes from malicious attacks, offering instant protection with minimal latency.

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Fastly Inc Profile

Company Name

Fastly Inc

Company Website

https://www.fastly.com/

HQ Location

475 Brannan St. #300, San Francisco, CA 94107

Employees

251-500

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