Top Traffic Sites
Cloudflare DNS · 17 of the top 100 websites (15.3%) 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
Cloudflare DNS · 17 of the top 100 websites
| Rank | Site | Hostname scanned | DNS provider | CDN & security provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | pinterest.com DNS Cloudflare DNS 50% + NS1 (IBM) 50% · CDN Fastly | www.pinterest.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Cloudflare DNS 50% + NS1 (IBM) 50% | Fastly |
| 24 | archive.org DNS Self-hosted 50% + Cloudflare DNS 33% + Other 17% · CDN Self-hosted (AS7941) | archive.orgscanned 2026-10-17 | Self-hosted 50% + Cloudflare DNS 33% + Other 17% | Self-hosted (AS7941) |
| 27 | medium.com DNS Cloudflare DNS · CDN Cloudflare | medium.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Cloudflare DNS | Cloudflare |
| 32 | sciencedirect.com DNS Cloudflare DNS · CDN Cloudflare | www.sciencedirect.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Cloudflare DNS | Cloudflare |
| 33 | shopify.com DNS Cloudflare DNS · CDN Cloudflare | shopify.com → www.shopify.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Cloudflare DNS | Cloudflare |
| 37 | researchgate.net DNS Cloudflare DNS · CDN Cloudflare | www.researchgate.netscanned 2026-10-17 | Cloudflare DNS | Cloudflare |
| 52 | calendly.com DNS Cloudflare DNS · CDN Cloudflare | calendly.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Cloudflare DNS | Cloudflare |
| 60 | substack.com DNS Cloudflare DNS · CDN Cloudflare | substack.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Cloudflare DNS | Cloudflare |
| 62 | cloudflare.com DNS Cloudflare DNS · CDN Cloudflare | dash.cloudflare.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Cloudflare DNS | Cloudflare |
| 69 | tandfonline.com DNS Cloudflare DNS · CDN Cloudflare | www.tandfonline.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Cloudflare DNS | Cloudflare |
| 72 | ca.gov DNS Cloudflare DNS · CDN AWS | www.dmv.ca.govscanned 2026-10-17 | Cloudflare DNS | AWS |
| 79 | cbsnews.com DNS NS1 (IBM) 67% + Cloudflare DNS 33% · CDN Fastly | www.cbsnews.comscanned 2026-10-17 | NS1 (IBM) 67% + Cloudflare DNS 33% | Fastly |
| 80 | pixabay.com DNS Cloudflare DNS · CDN Cloudflare | pixabay.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Cloudflare DNS | Cloudflare |
| 82 | cambridge.org DNS Cloudflare DNS · CDN Cloudflare | dictionary.cambridge.orgscanned 2026-10-17 | Cloudflare DNS | Cloudflare |
| 84 | independent.co.uk DNS Cloudflare DNS · CDN Fastly | www.independent.co.ukscanned 2026-10-17 | Cloudflare DNS | Fastly |
| 88 | hubspot.com DNS Cloudflare DNS · CDN Cloudflare | app.hubspot.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Cloudflare DNS | Cloudflare |
| 92 | apnews.com DNS Cloudflare DNS · CDN Cloudflare | apnews.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Cloudflare DNS | Cloudflare |