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Akamai vs Cloudflare
Akamai leads both: 30.7% of Fortune 500 CDN & security traffic and 26.6% of the top 1,000 websites.
Updated Oct 19 · 500 Fortune 500 companies tracked
Akamai
- Big companies using it
- 202
- CDN & security traffic
- 30.7%
- Share of hostnames
- 16.4%
- Top 1,000 websites
- 263 sites · 26.6%
- DNS share (big companies)
- 26.8%
Cloudflare
- Big companies using it
- 196
- CDN & security traffic
- 12.3%
- Share of hostnames
- 12.2%
- Top 1,000 websites
- 203 sites · 20.5%
- DNS share (big companies)
- 12.1%
Overlap
Big companies often run more than one CDN & security provider across their hostnames. No top website splits its traffic between them.
By sector
| Sector | Akamai | Cloudflare | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer | 43.7% | 9.7% | 120 (shares from 10) |
| Health Care | 11.0% | 15.6% | 47 (shares from 10) |
Traffic-weighted share within each sector. Sectors appear once 10 of their companies are fully scanned (not yet: Technology, Financials, Communication, Energy, Industrials, Materials, Real Estate, Utilities).
Biggest companies on each
Akamai 202 companies
- Walmart 93% of its traffic
- UnitedHealth Group 2% of its traffic
- Apple 48% of its traffic
- CVS Health 64% of its traffic
- McKesson 6% of its traffic
- ExxonMobil 9% of its traffic
- Microsoft 45% of its traffic
- JPMorgan Chase 64% of its traffic
- Cardinal Health 37% of its traffic
- Nvidia 52% of its traffic
Cloudflare 196 companies
- Walmart 2% of its traffic
- UnitedHealth Group 6% of its traffic
- Apple 0% of its traffic
- CVS Health 7% of its traffic
- Berkshire Hathaway 4% of its traffic
- McKesson 3% of its traffic
- ExxonMobil 13% of its traffic
- Cencora 5% of its traffic
- Microsoft 3% of its traffic
- Cigna Group 7% of its traffic
By Fortune rank.
Top websites on each
Akamai 263 of the top 1,000
Cloudflare 203 of the top 1,000
Numbers are site ranks.
Share = the CDN, WAF or cloud service visitors actually connect to, weighted by how much traffic each hostname gets. Shares count the sites and companies that answered our last scan: 988 of the top 1,000 and 49 Fortune 500 companies with complete data. How we measure.
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