Top Traffic Sites
Google Cloud DNS · 3 of the top 20 websites (11.5%) Show all sites
Shares count the 20 of the top 20 sites that answered our last scan.
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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).
Sites
Google Cloud DNS · 3 of the top 20 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 |