At a glance
73%sit behind a CDN
5%run on their own network
43%support IPv6
Cloudflare (26%), Akamai (24%) and Amazon Web Services (16%) serve the most of these websites. With 73% behind a content delivery network, looking up a big website usually shows its CDN rather than the company hosting its own servers.
Hosting networks
| Name | Websites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | 262 | 26% |
| Akamai | 236 | 24% |
| Amazon Web Services | 163 | 16% |
| Fastly | 79 | 8% |
| 24 | 2% | |
| Microsoft | 10 | 1% |
| National Informatics Centre | 7 | 1% |
| VK | 7 | 1% |
| Automattic | 6 | 1% |
| Meta | 6 | 1% |
Content delivery networks
| Name | Websites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | 261 | 26% |
| Akamai | 237 | 24% |
| Amazon CloudFront | 127 | 13% |
| Fastly | 76 | 8% |
| Imperva | 4 | <1% |
| ArvanCloud | 3 | <1% |
| CDN77 | 3 | <1% |
| Curator | 3 | <1% |
| DDoS-Guard | 3 | <1% |
| Radware | 2 | <1% |
Hosting platforms
| Name | Websites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Adobe Experience Manager | 2 | <1% |
| Webflow | 2 | <1% |
| Shopify | 1 | <1% |
| Vercel | 1 | <1% |
DNS providers
| Name | Websites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Route 53 | 267 | 27% |
| Cloudflare | 222 | 22% |
| Akamai Edge DNS | 117 | 12% |
| IBM NS1 Connect | 41 | 4% |
| Google Cloud DNS | 31 | 3% |
| UltraDNS | 31 | 3% |
| Azure DNS | 22 | 2% |
| Tencent Cloud DNSPod | 12 | 1% |
| CSC | 9 | 1% |
| RU-CENTER | 9 | 1% |
Websites running their own nameservers aren't counted here.
Email providers
| Name | Websites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Google Workspace | 345 | 35% |
| Microsoft 365 | 169 | 17% |
| Proofpoint (email security gateway) | 89 | 9% |
| Mimecast (email security gateway) | 24 | 2% |
| Cloudflare Email | 12 | 1% |
| Yandex 360 | 10 | 1% |
| Cisco Secure Email (gateway) | 9 | 1% |
| Zoho Mail (Government of India) | 9 | 1% |
| VK WorkMail | 7 | 1% |
| Zoho Mail | 7 | 1% |
Gateways filter mail before it reaches the real mailboxes, which may be with another provider.
Server countries
| Name | Websites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 396 | 40% |
| Ireland | 342 | 35% |
| United Kingdom | 51 | 5% |
| Russia | 35 | 4% |
| India | 28 | 3% |
| Germany | 17 | 2% |
| Japan | 16 | 2% |
| France | 12 | 1% |
| Iran | 11 | 1% |
| South Korea | 11 | 1% |
As reached from Europe: large websites answer from servers near each visitor.
Recent hosting changes
No confirmed changes yet. A change is listed once two weekly checks in a row agree, so short-lived switches between CDNs aren't reported as moves.
Based on our weekly check of the most visited websites (adult and malware sites excluded). How we check.