Proxying Plausible through Akamai
Proxying Plausible via your own property on Akamai is easy, fast and privacy friendly.
note
The instructions assume you use the default paths /js/script.js
and /api/event
. You can change these based on your preferences.
Step 1: Proxy Analytics Script
This Rule Group serves incoming requests matching /js/script.js
directly from the Akamai edge caches. In case of a cache miss the request is forwarded to plausible.io
in a privacy friendly way.
Add new Rule Group
In Akamai Property Manager add a new Rule Group Plausible (Script)
with these settings:

Set Criteria
- Path matches one off:
/js/script.js
Add Behaviour: Caching
- Caching Option: Cache
- Force revalidation of stale objects: Serve stale if unable to validate
- Maxage:
6 hours
Add Behaviour: Origin Server
- Origin Type: Your origin
- Origin Server Hostname:
plausible.io
- Forward Host Header: Origin Hostname
- Cache Key Hostname: Origin Hostname
- Supports Gzip Compression: Yes
- Send True Client IP Header: No (Privacy: No need to expose IP)
- Verification Settings: Choose your own
- ... (Other settings can be left as is)
Step 2: Proxy Event API
This Rule Group forwards incoming requests matching /api/event
to plausible.io. It adds extra headers (X-Forwarded-Proto
, X-Forwarded-Host
and X-Forwarded-For
) to the outgoing request so your Plausible statistics are complete. For privacy & security reasons incoming cookies are removed before sending to plausible.io
.
Add new Rule Group
In Akamai Property Manager add a new Rule Group Plausible (Event API)
with these settings:

Set Criteria
- Path matches one off:
/api/event
Add Behaviour: Origin Server
- Origin Type: Your origin
- Origin Server Hostname:
plausible.io
- Forward Host Header: Origin Hostname
- Cache Key Hostname: Origin Hostname
- Supports Gzip Compression: Yes
- Send True Client IP Header: Yes
- True Client IP Header Name:
X-Forwarded-For
- Verification Settings: Choose your own
- ... (Other settings can be left as is)

Add Behaviour: Modify Outgoing Request Header
- Action: Add
- Header Name:
X-Forwarded-Proto
- Header Value:
{{builtin.AK_SCHEME}}
Add Behaviour: Modify Outgoing Request Header
- Action: Add
- Header Name:
X-Forwarded-Host
- Header Value:
{{builtin.AK_HOST}}
Add Behaviour: Modify Outgoing Request Header
- Action: Remove
- Header Name:
cookie
(Privacy: No need to expose cookies to origin servers)
Optional:
In case you are using SureRoute, please disable it:

Thanks to Tim Vereecke, Akamai's web performance architect, for these instructions!