CDN analysis

News images are typically served via a content delivery network. Some CDN image-optimisation features can strip embedded metadata as part of compression — so a publisher who carefully embeds IPTC data may still appear to publish "blank" images. This page attributes each image we analysed to its CDN, and shows how IPTC retention varies by provider.

CDN distribution

ProviderImagesShare% with any IPTC
cloudflare 1946 28.6% 11.8%
none 1813 26.7% 11.9%
akamai 1346 19.8% 10.8%
cloudfront 934 13.7% 13.3%
fastly 733 10.8% 8.3%
bunny 31 0.5% 0.0%