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 27,983

1,583,459

India 8,997

622,057

United Kingdom 10,379

513,433

Brazil 5,729

428,068

Germany 8,573

390,348

Canada 9,141

380,528

Japan 5,220

383,205

France 7,374

374,181

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, Jun 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