Top Traffic Sites
Self-hosted · 119 of the top 1,000 websites (9.4%) 13 listed below · Show all sites
Shares count the 988 of the top 1,000 sites that answered our last scan.
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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.
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
Self-hosted · 119 of the top 1,000 websites
| Rank | Site | Hostname scanned | DNS provider | CDN & security provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | facebook.com DNS Self-hosted · CDN Self-hosted (AS32934) | www.facebook.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Self-hosted | Self-hosted (AS32934) |
| 3 | instagram.com DNS Self-hosted · CDN Self-hosted (AS32934) | www.instagram.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Self-hosted | Self-hosted (AS32934) |
| 6 | apple.com DNS Self-hosted 50% + Packet Clearing House 50% · CDN Akamai | www.apple.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Self-hosted 50% + Packet Clearing House 50% | Akamai |
| 7 | wikipedia.org DNS Self-hosted · CDN Self-hosted (AS14907) | en.wikipedia.orgscanned 2026-10-17 | Self-hosted | Self-hosted (AS14907) |
| 11 | whatsapp.com DNS Self-hosted · CDN Self-hosted (AS32934) | www.whatsapp.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Self-hosted | Self-hosted (AS32934) |
| 21 | nih.gov DNS Self-hosted · CDN Google Cloud | pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govscanned 2026-10-17 | Self-hosted | Google Cloud |
| 22 | yahoo.com DNS Self-hosted · CDN Self-hosted (AS36647) | www.yahoo.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Self-hosted | Self-hosted (AS36647) |
| 23 | tumblr.com DNS Self-hosted · CDN Self-hosted (AS2635) | www.tumblr.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Self-hosted | Self-hosted (AS2635) |
| 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) |
| 40 | wikimedia.org DNS Self-hosted · CDN Self-hosted (AS14907) | commons.wikimedia.orgscanned 2026-10-17 | Self-hosted | Self-hosted (AS14907) |
| 44 | wiley.com DNS Self-hosted · CDN Cloudflare | onlinelibrary.wiley.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Self-hosted | Cloudflare |
| 75 | yandex.ru DNS Self-hosted · CDN Self-hosted (AS13238) | afisha.yandex.ruscanned 2026-10-17 | Self-hosted | Self-hosted (AS13238) |
| 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 |
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