Is this site behind Akamai?
Enterprise-grade bot protection used by airlines, banks, and Fortune 500 sites. Sensor-data fingerprinting at the edge.
Free diagnostic • Confidence scoring • Signal-by-signal breakdown • Recommended client configuration
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What is Akamai Bot Manager?
Akamai Bot Manager is the bot-protection product layered on top of Akamai's CDN. It is what protects most major airlines, banks, government portals, and retail giants. Detection relies on a "sensor data" payload computed by a JavaScript SDK and verified at the edge.
Read the full Akamai Bot Manager glossary entry
How Akamai Bot Manager protects sites
- ›Sensor-data JavaScript SDK (`_abck` cookie)
- ›Bot-manager scoring at the CDN edge
- ›Pixel challenge + interstitial blocks
- ›JA3/JA4 + behavioural anomaly detection
- ›Aggressive IP reputation scoring
Detection signals we look for
- ✓
_abckcookie - ✓
ak_bmsccookie - ✓
server: AkamaiGHostorakamaiin headers - ✓References to
/akam/orbm-verify
Recommended Scrappey client configuration
For authorised access only — your own properties, contractually permitted scraping, QA, monitoring, accessibility audits, and similar use cases. Always respect the site's terms of service and applicable law.
- →Run a full browser engine — the sensor SDK expects a complete runtime to produce a consistent
_abckvalue. - →Use residential or mobile egress in the target country; geo and IP reputation weigh heavily in scoring.
- →Favour long-lived sessions and low concurrency over many short-lived ones.
- →Let the Scrappey browser environment run the page scripts end to end rather than replaying requests in isolation.
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Akamai Bot Manager FAQ
Why is Akamai considered the toughest stack to interoperate with?
Two reasons: the sensor-data payload is heavily obfuscated and rotated, and Akamai's CDN sees a massive fraction of global traffic so its IP reputation data is unrivalled. Even browser-based clients get throttled if the IP looks suspicious.
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