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Akamai vs Cloudflare vs Fastly
Akamai leads both: 30.7% of Fortune 500 CDN & security traffic and 26.6% of the top 1,000 websites.
Updated Oct 19 · Fortune 500 · 1,999 hostnames
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%
Fastly
- Big companies using it
- 55
- CDN & security traffic
- 1.8%
- Share of hostnames
- 1.2%
- Top 1,000 websites
- 110 sites · 11.1%
- DNS share (big companies)
- no DNS product
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 | Fastly | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer | 43.7% | 9.7% | 0.0% | 120 (shares from 10) |
| Health Care | 11.0% | 15.6% | 6.7% | 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 Main site 22 of 36 hostnames found
- UnitedHealth Group 2 of 91 hostnames found
- Apple Main site 42 of 142 hostnames found
- CVS Health Main site 42 of 55 hostnames found
- McKesson 1 of 22 hostnames found
- ExxonMobil 7 of 40 hostnames found
- Microsoft Main site 23 of 139 hostnames found
- JPMorgan Chase Main site 17 of 40 hostnames found
- Cardinal Health Main site 5 of 13 hostnames found
- Nvidia Main site 19 of 95 hostnames found
Cloudflare 196 companies
- Walmart 4 of 36 hostnames found
- UnitedHealth Group 5 of 91 hostnames found
- Apple 1 of 142 hostnames found
- CVS Health 1 of 55 hostnames found
- Berkshire Hathaway 1 of 49 hostnames found
- McKesson 2 of 22 hostnames found
- ExxonMobil 1 of 40 hostnames found
- Cencora 1 of 9 hostnames found
- Microsoft 4 of 139 hostnames found
- Cigna Group 6 of 26 hostnames found
Fastly 55 companies
- Walmart 1 of 36 hostnames found
- UnitedHealth Group Main site 11 of 91 hostnames found
- Apple 3 of 142 hostnames found
- CVS Health 1 of 55 hostnames found
- Microsoft 1 of 139 hostnames found
- Costco Wholesale Main site 1 of 1 hostname found
- Cigna Group 1 of 26 hostnames found
- Kroger 1 of 11 hostnames found
- Valero Energy Main site 2 of 7 hostnames found
- Target Main site 1 of 1 hostname found
By Fortune rank.
Top websites on each
Akamai 263 of the top 1,000
Cloudflare 203 of the top 1,000
Fastly 110 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. How we measure.
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