At a glance
73%sit behind a CDN
5%run on their own network
44%support IPv6
Cloudflare (29%), Akamai (21%) 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 | 375 | 29% |
| Akamai | 274 | 21% |
| Amazon Web Services | 210 | 16% |
| Fastly | 92 | 7% |
| 33 | 3% | |
| Microsoft | 14 | 1% |
| Imperva | 11 | 1% |
| Automattic | 7 | 1% |
| National Informatics Centre | 7 | 1% |
| VK | 7 | 1% |
Content delivery networks
| Name | Websites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | 372 | 29% |
| Akamai | 273 | 21% |
| Amazon CloudFront | 160 | 13% |
| Fastly | 91 | 7% |
| Imperva | 11 | 1% |
| DDoS-Guard | 5 | <1% |
| ArvanCloud | 4 | <1% |
| Curator | 4 | <1% |
| CDN77 | 3 | <1% |
| ServicePipe | 3 | <1% |
Hosting platforms
| Name | Websites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Webflow | 3 | <1% |
| Adobe Experience Manager | 2 | <1% |
| Wix | 2 | <1% |
| Heroku | 1 | <1% |
| Shopify | 1 | <1% |
| Vercel | 1 | <1% |
DNS providers
| Name | Websites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Route 53 | 334 | 26% |
| Cloudflare | 329 | 26% |
| Akamai Edge DNS | 136 | 11% |
| IBM NS1 Connect | 46 | 4% |
| Google Cloud DNS | 36 | 3% |
| UltraDNS | 34 | 3% |
| Azure DNS | 24 | 2% |
| Tencent Cloud DNSPod | 12 | 1% |
| CSC | 9 | 1% |
| DNS Made Easy | 9 | 1% |
Websites running their own nameservers aren't counted here.
Email providers
| Name | Websites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Google Workspace | 421 | 33% |
| Microsoft 365 | 213 | 17% |
| Proofpoint (email security gateway) | 105 | 8% |
| Mimecast (email security gateway) | 32 | 3% |
| Cloudflare Email | 20 | 2% |
| Yandex 360 | 14 | 1% |
| Zoho Mail (Government of India) | 13 | 1% |
| Cisco Secure Email (gateway) | 11 | 1% |
| VK WorkMail | 9 | 1% |
| Zoho Mail | 8 | 1% |
Gateways filter mail before it reaches the real mailboxes, which may be with another provider.
Server countries
| Name | Websites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 565 | 44% |
| Ireland | 338 | 26% |
| United Kingdom | 122 | 10% |
| Russia | 43 | 3% |
| India | 29 | 2% |
| Germany | 24 | 2% |
| Japan | 19 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 16 | 1% |
| France | 15 | 1% |
| Iran | 14 | 1% |
As reached from Europe: large websites answer from servers near each visitor.
Recent hosting changes
- : farpost.ru switched from Tendence to Curator in front of HLL.
- : girlschannel.net switched from Amazon Web Services to Cloudflare.
- : mangabuff.ru switched from IQWeb FZ-LLC to DDoS-Guard.
- : pia.jp switched from Internet Initiative Japan to Amazon Web Services.
- : tori.fi switched from Google to Fastly.
- : hurriyet.com.tr switched from WorldStream to CDN77.
- : correios.com.br switched from Algar Telecom S/A to BR.Digital Telecom.
- : newtoki1.org switched from CDN77 to Microsoft.
- : paypal.com switched from Cloudflare in front of Fastly to Fastly.
- : willhaben.at switched from willhaben internet service GmbH & Co KG to Cloudflare.
- : eldiario.es switched from Datacamp to Aire Networks DEL Mediterraneo SL Unipersonal.
- : humoruniv.com switched from Kinx to Gabia.
- : hurriyet.com.tr switched from CDN77 to WorldStream.
- : movieswood.cloud switched from Leaseweb to Cloudflare.
- : tbank.ru switched from "Tbank" JSC to Tbank JSC.
- : correios.com.br switched from BR.Digital Telecom to Algar Telecom S/A.
- : flipkart.com switched from Flipkart Internet to Akamai.
- : paypal.com switched from Fastly to Cloudflare in front of Fastly.
- : thetimes.com switched from Amazon Web Services to Amazon CloudFront in front of Amazon Web Services.
- : eldiario.es switched from Aire Networks DEL Mediterraneo SL Unipersonal to Datacamp.
Based on our weekly check of the most visited websites (adult and malware sites excluded). How we check.