Top Traffic Sites
Google Cloud DNS · 6 of the top 100 websites (4.8%) 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
Google Cloud DNS · 6 of the top 100 websites
| Rank | Site | Hostname scanned | DNS provider | CDN & security provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 19 | t.me DNS Google Cloud DNS · CDN Self-hosted (AS62041) | t.mescanned 2026-10-17 | Google Cloud DNS | Self-hosted (AS62041) |
| 20 | spotify.com DNS Google Cloud DNS 80% + NS1 (IBM) 20% · CDN Fastly | www.spotify.com → open.spotify.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Google Cloud DNS 80% + NS1 (IBM) 20% | Fastly |
| 55 | arxiv.org DNS Google Cloud DNS · CDN Fastly | arxiv.orgscanned 2026-10-17 | Google Cloud DNS | Fastly |
| 87 | telegram.me DNS Google Cloud DNS · CDN Self-hosted (AS62041) | telegram.mescanned 2026-10-17 | Google Cloud DNS | Self-hosted (AS62041) |
| 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 |