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 23,747

1,456,850

India 7,892

571,175

United Kingdom 9,080

472,939

Brazil 5,212

435,717

Germany 7,431

354,801

Canada 7,991

343,253

Japan 4,521

339,857

France 6,238

331,596

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, Sep 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