Top Traffic Sites

Cloudflare DNS · 172 of the top 1,000 websites (16.7%) 17 listed below · Show all sites

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The 1,000 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.

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CDN & Security DNS

Top 1,000 fully scanned (2026-10-17). Updated weekly; the totals use each site's latest result.

DNS Market Share, Top 1,000

AWS Route 53 29%Cloudflare DNS 17%Other 14%Akamai Edge DNS 13%Self-hosted 9.4%UltraDNS (DigiCert) 3.4%Google Cloud DNS 3.4%NS1 (IBM) 3.1%Azure DNS 2.0%DNS Made Easy 2.0%Google (own network) 1.4%CSC 0.9%Nominet 0.2%F5 DNS 0.2%Packet Clearing House 0.2%GoDaddy 0.2%DNSimple 0.1%Oracle Dyn 0.1%Vercel DNS 0.1%MarkMonitor 0.1%

Each site counts once; a site split across providers is split evenly (DNS: by nameserver count).

Sites

Cloudflare DNS · 172 of the top 1,000 websites

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

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