Top Traffic Sites
AWS Route 53 · 35 of the top 100 websites (31.4%) Show all sites
Shares count the 99 of the top 100 sites that answered our last scan.
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The 100 highest-traffic websites, ranked by agreement across several public traffic and link lists, and the authoritative DNS provider of each site's domain and the CDN, WAF or cloud load balancer a visitor connects to first.
Top 100 fully scanned (2026-10-17). Updated weekly; the totals use each site's latest result.
DNS Market Share, Top 100
AWS Route 53 31%Cloudflare DNS 15%Self-hosted 11%NS1 (IBM) 9.4%Akamai Edge DNS 7.3%Azure DNS 5.1%Google Cloud DNS 4.8%UltraDNS (DigiCert) 4.1%Google (own network) 4.0%Other 3.2%Packet Clearing House 1.0%Nominet 1.0%DNSimple 1.0%DNS Made Easy 0.6%GoDaddy 0.3%
Each site counts once; a site split across providers is split evenly (DNS: by nameserver count).
Sites
AWS Route 53 · 35 of the top 100 websites
| Rank | Site | Hostname scanned | DNS provider | CDN & security provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | x.com DNS AWS Route 53 75% + UltraDNS (DigiCert) 13% + Other 13% · CDN Cloudflare | x.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 75% + UltraDNS (DigiCert) 13% + Other 13% | Cloudflare |
| 13 | github.com DNS NS1 (IBM) 50% + AWS Route 53 50% · CDN Microsoft (own network) | github.comscanned 2026-10-17 | NS1 (IBM) 50% + AWS Route 53 50% | Microsoft (own network) |
| 14 | vimeo.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Cloudflare | vimeo.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Cloudflare |
| 15 | amazon.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN AWS | www.amazon.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | AWS |
| 16 | bit.ly DNS AWS Route 53 50% + Google Cloud DNS 50% · CDN Google Cloud | bit.lyscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 50% + Google Cloud DNS 50% | Google Cloud |
| 18 | reddit.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Fastly | www.reddit.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Fastly |
| 25 | flickr.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN AWS | www.flickr.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | AWS |
| 26 | nytimes.com DNS NS1 (IBM) 50% + AWS Route 53 50% · CDN Fastly | www.nytimes.comscanned 2026-10-17 | NS1 (IBM) 50% + AWS Route 53 50% | Fastly |
| 28 | soundcloud.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN AWS | soundcloud.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | AWS |
| 29 | forbes.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Fastly | www.forbes.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Fastly |
| 34 | dropbox.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Self-hosted (AS19679) | www.dropbox.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Self-hosted (AS19679) |
| 36 | cnn.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Fastly | www.cnn.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Fastly |
| 38 | reuters.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN AWS | www.reuters.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | AWS |
| 46 | linktr.ee DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Fastly | linktr.eescanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Fastly |
| 51 | washingtonpost.com DNS AWS Route 53 50% + UltraDNS (DigiCert) 50% · CDN Akamai | www.washingtonpost.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 50% + UltraDNS (DigiCert) 50% | Akamai |
| 53 | stripe.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Fastly | checkout.stripe.com → stripe.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Fastly |
| 54 | wsj.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN AWS | www.wsj.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | AWS |
| 59 | bsky.app DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Direct (AWS) | bsky.appscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Direct (AWS) |
| 63 | eventbrite.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN AWS | www.eventbrite.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | AWS |
| 65 | npr.org DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Akamai | www.npr.orgscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Akamai |
| 66 | behance.net DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Fastly | www.behance.netscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Fastly |
| 67 | zoom.us DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Cloudflare | zoom.usscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Cloudflare |
| 68 | ft.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Cloudflare | www.ft.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Cloudflare |
| 74 | tripadvisor.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN AWS | www.tripadvisor.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | AWS |
| 76 | britannica.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Cloudflare | www.britannica.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Cloudflare |
| 78 | surveymonkey.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN AWS | www.surveymonkey.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | AWS |
| 85 | ieee.org DNS Self-hosted 33% + AWS Route 53 33% + Other 33% · CDN AWS | ieeexplore.ieee.orgscanned 2026-10-17 | Self-hosted 33% + AWS Route 53 33% + Other 33% | AWS |
| 89 | imgur.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Fastly | imgur.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Fastly |
| 90 | aol.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN AWS | www.aol.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | AWS |
| 91 | latimes.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN AWS | www.latimes.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | AWS |
| 93 | twitch.tv DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Fastly | www.twitch.tv → m.twitch.tvscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Fastly |
| 94 | etsy.com DNS NS1 (IBM) 50% + AWS Route 53 50% · CDN Fastly | www.etsy.comscanned 2026-10-17 | NS1 (IBM) 50% + AWS Route 53 50% | Fastly |
| 95 | scribd.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Fastly | www.scribd.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Fastly |
| 99 | theatlantic.com DNS AWS Route 53 50% + Google Cloud DNS 50% · CDN Cloudflare | www.theatlantic.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 50% + Google Cloud DNS 50% | Cloudflare |
| 100 | nbcnews.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Akamai | www.nbcnews.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Akamai |