Top Traffic Sites
Self-hosted · 5 of the top 20 websites (22.5%) 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
Self-hosted · 5 of the top 20 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) |