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Cloudflare vs Fastly

Cloudflare leads both: 12.3% of Fortune 500 CDN & security traffic and 20.5% of the top 1,000 websites.

Cloudflare
12.3%
Fortune 500 CDN & security traffic
Top 1,000 sites: 20.5%
Fastly
1.8%
Fortune 500 CDN & security traffic
Top 1,000 sites: 11.1%
Fortune 500 (traffic-weighted)500 tracked
Top 1,000 websites

Updated Oct 19 · 500 Fortune 500 companies tracked

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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

17Cloudflare + Fastly · companies

Big companies often run more than one CDN & security provider across their hostnames. No top website splits its traffic between them.

By sector

SectorCloudflareFastlyCompanies
Consumer
9.7%
0.0%
120 (shares from 10)
Health Care
15.6%
6.7%
47 (shares from 10)
Consumer120 companies · shares from 10
Cloudflare9.7%
Fastly0.0%
Health Care47 companies · shares from 10
Cloudflare15.6%
Fastly6.7%

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

Cloudflare 196 companies

  1. Walmart 4 of 36 hostnames found
  2. UnitedHealth Group 5 of 91 hostnames found
  3. Apple 1 of 142 hostnames found
  4. CVS Health 1 of 55 hostnames found
  5. Berkshire Hathaway 1 of 49 hostnames found
  6. McKesson 2 of 22 hostnames found
  7. ExxonMobil 1 of 40 hostnames found
  8. Cencora 1 of 9 hostnames found
  9. Microsoft 4 of 139 hostnames found
  10. Cigna Group 6 of 26 hostnames found

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Fastly 55 companies

  1. Walmart 1 of 36 hostnames found
  2. UnitedHealth Group Main site 11 of 91 hostnames found
  3. Apple 3 of 142 hostnames found
  4. CVS Health 1 of 55 hostnames found
  5. Microsoft 1 of 139 hostnames found
  6. Costco Wholesale Main site 1 of 1 hostname found
  7. Cigna Group 1 of 26 hostnames found
  8. Kroger 1 of 11 hostnames found
  9. Valero Energy Main site 2 of 7 hostnames found
  10. Target Main site 1 of 1 hostname found

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By Fortune rank.

Top websites on each

Cloudflare 203 of the top 1,000

  1. linkedin.com
  2. x.com
  3. vimeo.com
  4. medium.com
  5. sciencedirect.com
  6. shopify.com
  7. researchgate.net
  8. wiley.com
  9. openai.com
  10. calendly.com

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Fastly 110 of the top 1,000

  1. pinterest.com
  2. reddit.com
  3. spotify.com
  4. nytimes.com
  5. forbes.com
  6. theguardian.com
  7. paypal.com
  8. bbc.com
  9. cnn.com
  10. nature.com

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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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