E-commerce & Retail
Black Friday-ready scale, scraper defense, and conversion-optimized performance from cart to checkout.
What makes this vertical uniquely demanding.
Traffic spikes are unpredictable and extreme
A single flash sale, viral product moment, or competitor outage can 50–100x your normal load in minutes. Origin infrastructure that wasn't built for it becomes the outage itself.
Scrapers target your pricing and inventory
Competitive intelligence bots harvest your catalog, pricing, and stock levels continuously. The cost is slow page loads, inflated origin spend, and competitors making decisions with your data.
Checkout fraud happens at scale
Account takeover, carding, and fake account creation target checkout flows specifically. Traditional rate limiting blocks real customers while letting sophisticated bots through.
From first assessment to continuous operation.
Assess
We review your current CDN, WAF, and bot management configuration to identify gaps in peak readiness, scraper defence, and checkout protection.
Architect
We design a deployment covering CDN scale, image optimisation, bot management, and checkout security — tuned to the traffic and fraud patterns of retail.
Deploy
Akamai CDN, Image & Video Manager, and Bot Manager are deployed and calibrated to differentiate real users, legitimate partner integrations, and aggressive scrapers.
Operate
24/7 monitoring with peak-day runbooks, real-time traffic dashboards, and post-event performance and threat reports after every major sale event.
Edge performance improvements — faster Time to First Byte, optimised images, and smarter routing — drive an average 18% improvement in conversion rate across our e-commerce engagements.
What we typically deploy.
Performance & CDN
Deliver fast, reliable experiences with global edge caching, image optimization, and intelligent routing.
Web Application Security
Stop OWASP Top 10 attacks, credential stuffing, and zero-day exploits before they reach your origin.
API Security
Discover, classify, and protect every API endpoint — internal, partner, or public — across your estate.
Let's plan your next move.
A 30-minute consultation with one of our senior architects. Walk away with a clear, vendor-neutral assessment of your security and performance posture.