--- title: "Fastly: vendor profile | Agent Ready Checklist" description: "Fastly, a host or CDN: 0 of 3 checklist rows read are met by default, with 6 sourced facts, dated plans and what it does not do." canonical: https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/fastly site: "Agent Ready Checklist" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Vendors" --- # Fastly: vendor profile | Agent Ready Checklist > Fastly, a host or CDN: 0 of 3 checklist rows read are met by default, with 6 sourced facts, dated plans and what it does not do. Source: https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/fastly Site: Agent Ready Checklist Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 Agent endpoints: https://agentreadychecklist.com/llms.txt (index), https://agentreadychecklist.com/openapi.json (API), https://agentreadychecklist.com/mcp (MCP server), https://agentreadychecklist.com/ask (search) Access: https://agentreadychecklist.com/auth.md (no key). Pricing: https://agentreadychecklist.com/pricing.md (free). # Fastly Fastly sits in front of an origin or a Compute app, and its Bot Management product acts on bots before or after the cache, letting verified bots through on a WAF signal, so AR-FIND-01 is partial. The crawl counted 411 home pages behind Fastly by response headers. Markdown conversion and header settings are not covered in the pages read. ## At a glance Type [Host or CDN](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/by-type/host/) Homepage [fastly.com](https://www.fastly.com), answered HTTP 200 on 2026-11-05 Checklist rows 3 of 31 read: **0** supported, 1 partial, 2 no statement In the crawl 411 of 7,545 home pages counted on 2026-11-04. Counted from the crawl's headers and generator tags, an undercount for hosted builders. Last read 2026-11-05 ## What it does for this layer - Fastly Bot Management gives visibility into bot traffic and enforces rulesets and policies in delivery before cache or after cache. primary source: [docs.fastly.com/products/bot-management](https://docs.fastly.com/products/bot-management), read 2026-11-05 - Fastly ContentGuard performs bot detection at the network edge, before bots reach Fastly cache or the origin. primary source: [docs.fastly.com/products/bot-management](https://docs.fastly.com/products/bot-management), read 2026-11-05 - Fastly client fingerprinting uses JA3 and JA4 TLS fingerprints to identify client types. primary source: [docs.fastly.com/products/bot-management](https://docs.fastly.com/products/bot-management), read 2026-11-05 - Fastly advanced client-side detections require adding a JavaScript snippet to the site's HTML to detect headless browsers. primary source: [docs.fastly.com/products/bot-management](https://docs.fastly.com/products/bot-management), read 2026-11-05 - Fastly verified bots add a Next-Gen WAF signal that validates self-identified bots so rules can allow or block them. primary source: [docs.fastly.com/products/bot-management](https://docs.fastly.com/products/bot-management), read 2026-11-05 - Fastly's pricing page offers a free tier and usage-based pricing on its edge platform. primary source: [fastly.com/pricing](https://www.fastly.com/pricing), read 2026-11-05 ## Products and plans | Product | What it is | Price | As of | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Fastly Bot Management | Bot detection and mitigation before or after cache. | No price read | not read | | Fastly edge platform | CDN and compute with a free tier and usage-based pricing. | Pay as you use; Try Fastly free; fastly.com/pricing | 2026-11-05 | ## Standards | Row | What it asks | Status | What the vendor's pages say | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AR-FIND-01 | Do not block agents | partial | Bot Management can block or challenge bots; verified bots can be allowed through a WAF signal. | docs.fastly.com/products/bot-management | | CF-MARKDOWN-NEGOTIATION | Markdown by Accept | no statement | No markdown conversion product was found in the pages read. | none | | VERCEL-NEGOTIATION-HEADERS | Markdown headers | no statement | Header behaviour is set in the service configuration; not covered in the pages read. | none | ## Checks on its own site | Reading | Result | Date | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Cloudflare scan of fastly.com | 20 of 100, band L1 Basic Web Presence | 2026-11-05 | isitagentready.com | | Crawl row for fastly.com | 6 of 10 checks pass; Tranco rank 6,999 | 2026-11-04 | agentreadychecklist.com/data/ | | Home pages counted in the crawl | 411 of 7,545; Counted from the shared crawl of 2026-11-04 by a Fastly server header or an x-served-by cache header; the generator rule only sees tags whose name attribute comes first, so it undercounts | 2026-11-04 | agentreadychecklist.com/data/ | | Check | Result | Verify Kit check | | --- | --- | --- | | robots.txt allows all 17 agent tokens at / | pass | robots-verdicts | | robots.txt blocks no search or user-fetch token | pass | robots-verdicts | | Home page has an h1 and 50 words in the initial HTML | pass | initial-html | | A missing path returns 404 or 410 | pass | status-codes | | /llms.txt exists | pass | llms-linked | | Home page links to llms.txt | fail | llms-linked | | Accept: text/markdown returns text/markdown | fail | markdown-negotiation | | Home page carries JSON-LD that parses | pass | json-ld | | OpenAPI linked from the home page or served at /openapi.json | fail | openapi | | /.well-known/mcp.json serves JSON | fail | mcp-or-cli | ## What it does not do - Fastly does not host a site's pages by itself; it serves and caches an origin or Compute app. - Fastly does not convert HTML to markdown in the pages read. ## Related pages on this site Same type [Hosts and CDNs](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/by-type/host/), [all vendors](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/) ## Sources - [fastly.com](https://www.fastly.com)read 2026-11-05 - [docs.fastly.com/products/bot-management](https://docs.fastly.com/products/bot-management)read 2026-11-05 - [fastly.com/pricing](https://www.fastly.com/pricing)read 2026-11-05 - [isitagentready.com](https://isitagentready.com/)read 2026-11-05 - [agentreadychecklist.com/data/](https://agentreadychecklist.com/data/)read 2026-11-04 Edition Data 2026-11-04 Reviewed 2026-11-05 Spec AgentReady v2.0, 273d2d7 Crawl 13,071 rows, 2026-11-04 Ora 132 checks, contract 1.38.0, 2026-11-05 Verify with Ora The scanner this site recommends for the whole checklist. 132 checks, a score out of 100, no account. `npx ax@0.10 audit --min-score ` [Why Ora, and its limits](https://agentreadychecklist.com/verify-with-ora/) Method - [How rows, commands and rates are made](https://agentreadychecklist.com/method/) - [How an Ora check is matched to a row](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ora-checks/) - [Pass rates by rank band](https://agentreadychecklist.com/data/by-rank/) Sources and read dates sit at the foot of the page. Last reviewed 2026-11-05. AgentReady v2.0, read 2026-11-04.