Akamai vs Cloudflare

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Akamai · Cloudflare · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Akamai · Cloudflare · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 24,225

1,438,078

India 7,992

566,121

United Kingdom 9,156

460,600

Brazil 5,225

429,245

Germany 7,555

354,073

Canada 8,089

336,601

Japan 4,548

335,818

France 6,250

321,551

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Akamai sites · All Cloudflare sites