Top Traffic Sites
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The 20 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 20 fully scanned (2026-10-17). Updated weekly; the totals use each site's latest result.
DNS Market Share, Top 20
AWS Route 53 24%Self-hosted 22%Google Cloud DNS 12%Google (own network) 10%Akamai Edge DNS 10%NS1 (IBM) 8.5%Azure DNS 7.5%Packet Clearing House 2.5%Cloudflare DNS 2.5%UltraDNS (DigiCert) 0.6%Other 0.6%
Each site counts once; a site split across providers is split evenly (DNS: by nameserver count). Shares count the 20 of the top 20 sites that answered our last scan.
Sites
| 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) |
| 2 | google.com DNS Google (own network) · CDN Google (own network) | www.google.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Google (own network) | Google (own network) |
| 3 | instagram.com DNS Self-hosted · CDN Self-hosted (AS32934) | www.instagram.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Self-hosted | Self-hosted (AS32934) |
| 4 | youtube.com DNS Google (own network) · CDN Google (own network) | www.youtube.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Google (own network) | Google (own network) |
| 5 | linkedin.com DNS NS1 (IBM) 50% + Azure DNS 50% · CDN Cloudflare | www.linkedin.comscanned 2026-10-17 | NS1 (IBM) 50% + Azure DNS 50% | Cloudflare |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 9 | microsoft.com DNS Azure DNS · CDN Akamai | www.microsoft.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Azure DNS | Akamai |
| 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 |
| 11 | whatsapp.com DNS Self-hosted · CDN Self-hosted (AS32934) | www.whatsapp.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Self-hosted | Self-hosted (AS32934) |
| 12 | tiktok.com DNS Akamai Edge DNS · CDN Akamai | www.tiktok.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Akamai Edge DNS | Akamai |
| 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 |
| 17 | adobe.com DNS Akamai Edge DNS · CDN Akamai | www.adobe.comscanned 2026-10-17 | Akamai Edge DNS | Akamai |
| 18 | reddit.com DNS AWS Route 53 · CDN Fastly | www.reddit.comscanned 2026-10-17 | AWS Route 53 | Fastly |
| 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 |