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Convertible Senior Notes - Narrative (Details) (USD $)
Share data in Millions, except Per Share data, unless otherwise specified
1 Months Ended 12 Months Ended
Feb. 28, 2014
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Dec. 31, 2014
Dec. 31, 2013
Dec. 31, 2012
Debt Instrument [Line Items]        
Debt issued $ 690,000,000us-gaap_DebtInstrumentFaceAmount $ 690,000,000us-gaap_DebtInstrumentFaceAmount    
Conversion rate (in shares) 11.1651us-gaap_DebtInstrumentConvertibleConversionRatio1      
Principal amount per conversion 1,000akam_ValuePerConversionofConvertibleDebt      
Conversion price (in dollars per share) $ 89.56us-gaap_DebtInstrumentConvertibleConversionPrice1      
Threshold trading days exceeding price 20us-gaap_DebtInstrumentConvertibleThresholdTradingDays      
Threshold consecutive trading days exceeding price 30 days      
Threshold greater than percentage of stock price trigger 130.00%us-gaap_DebtInstrumentConvertibleThresholdPercentageOfStockPriceTrigger      
Threshold trading days not exceeding price 5akam_DebtInstrumentConvertibleThresholdTradingDaysNotExceeding      
Threshold consecutive trading days not exceeding price 5 days      
Threshold less than percentage of stock price trigger 98.00%akam_DebtInstrumentConvertibleThresholdLessThanPercentageofStockPriceTrigger      
Potential conversion shares of convertible debt (in shares) 7.7akam_PotentialConversionSharesOfConvertibleDebt      
Fair value of convertible senior notes   720,900,000us-gaap_LongTermDebtFairValue    
Closing stock price (in dollars per share)   $ 62.96us-gaap_SharePrice    
Repurchases of common stock 62,000,000us-gaap_PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock 268,647,000us-gaap_PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock 160,419,000us-gaap_PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock 141,468,000us-gaap_PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock
Payments for purchase of convertible note hedge and warrant transactions 23,300,000akam_PaymentsforPurchaseofConvertibleNoteHedgeandWarrantTransactions      
Payments for note hedge transactions 101,300,000us-gaap_PaymentsForHedgeFinancingActivities 101,292,000us-gaap_PaymentsForHedgeFinancingActivities 0us-gaap_PaymentsForHedgeFinancingActivities 0us-gaap_PaymentsForHedgeFinancingActivities
Note hedge shares outstanding (in shares) 7.7akam_NoteHedgeSharesOutstanding      
Warrants outstanding (in shares) 7.7us-gaap_ClassOfWarrantOrRightOutstanding      
Warrant strike price (in dollars per share) $ 104.49us-gaap_ClassOfWarrantOrRightExercisePriceOfWarrantsOrRights1      
Proceeds from sale of warrants $ 78,000,000us-gaap_ProceedsFromIssuanceOfWarrants $ 77,970,000us-gaap_ProceedsFromIssuanceOfWarrants $ 0us-gaap_ProceedsFromIssuanceOfWarrants $ 0us-gaap_ProceedsFromIssuanceOfWarrants
Effective interest rate 3.20%us-gaap_DebtInstrumentInterestRateEffectivePercentage