About webatla. webatla is a domain-intelligence platform. We crawl and fingerprint domains across the web and record which technology each site runs — the same class of tool as BuiltWith or Wappalyzer, with wider coverage. Every number on this page comes from the webatla index, last refreshed on 7 July 2026.
There are 54,437,496 websites that use Cloudflare live in the webatla index right now — 17.7% of every domain we track, which makes it the single most common technology in the entire index, ahead of any CMS, server or analytics tool. Nearly one in six sites on the web sits behind Cloudflare.
What Cloudflare actually is
Cloudflare is a reverse proxy: it sits in front of a website, between visitors and the origin server. From that position it delivers three things at once — a content delivery network (CDN) that caches and speeds up pages, a security layer (WAF, DDoS mitigation, bot filtering) that is why so many say their sites are "protected by Cloudflare," and managed DNS. Because a site points its domain at Cloudflare, the fingerprint is unambiguous and served on every request, which matters for the data below. Founded in 2009, Cloudflare now fronts a larger share of the web than any other single technology webatla tracks.
Websites that use Cloudflare vs the rest of the CDN market
The headline figure — 54,437,496 live sites, 17.7% of all indexed domains — only lands once you see the competition. Cloudflare is not the leading CDN. It is the only CDN operating at web scale.
Live sites by reverse-proxy CDN. Source: webatla index, July 2026.
- Cloudflare — 54,437,496 sites (17.7%)
- Amazon CloudFront — 1,482,887 sites (0.5%)
- Fastly — 1,030,468 sites (0.3%)
- Akamai — 25,532 sites (0.0%)
The gap is not a lead; it is a different scale entirely. Cloudflare runs on 37× as many sites as Amazon CloudFront, the next reverse-proxy CDN, and more than 50× Fastly. Akamai — the CDN that effectively invented the category — now shows just 25,532 live sites in the index. Add every dedicated reverse-proxy competitor together and the total is under 2.6M, less than 5% of Cloudflare's footprint. For anyone reasoning about the web's delivery and security layer, there is one name that matters and a long tail of everyone else.
To feel the absolute scale, set Cloudflare against the platforms people call giants: its 54,437,496 sites are more than double the entire WordPress install base (23,589,840). The web's most common way to sit in front of a site out-counts its most common way to build one, two to one. That is why Cloudflare shows up in front of sites built on every CMS, server and store platform in the index — it is not a competitor to those tools but the layer wrapped around all of them.
What the domain endings say
Domain endings are a useful fingerprint, and Cloudflare's confirm that it spans the whole web rather than any one niche.
Top TLDs among Cloudflare sites. Source: webatla index, July 2026.
.com leads at 46.8% (25,477,102 domains), close to the web-wide average — Cloudflare is not skewed toward one type of site. What stands out lower down is the breadth: .org (3.4%) for nonprofits, .net (2.8%) for infrastructure and legacy sites, and then two commerce-and-content signals, .shop (2.3%) and .info (2.1%). The presence of .shop in the top five is notable — it means a large slice of the web's newer online stores route through Cloudflare for speed and protection. The spread is the point: sites protected by Cloudflare are drawn from every corner of the web, not a single vertical.
Who puts Cloudflare in front of their site
Cloudflare's reach is broad because it solves three problems every site has. As a CDN it caches content close to visitors, so pages load faster. As a security layer it absorbs DDoS attacks and filters bots — the reason so many operators describe their sites as protected by Cloudflare. And as managed DNS it is often the fastest, simplest place to point a domain. Those three jobs apply to a personal blog and a bank alike, which is why the TLD spread above runs from .shop stores to .org nonprofits to .com businesses. There is no single Cloudflare customer profile; at 17.7% of the web, the profile is the web itself. That ubiquity is what makes the list useful — filter it and you are effectively filtering a representative cross-section of every live site online, by country, TLD or the other technologies each site runs.
Where webatla geolocates Cloudflare sites — read this carefully
The country breakdown needs context, because Cloudflare is a proxy. In the index, 74.4% of Cloudflare sites geolocate to the United States, followed by Canada at 9.5%.
Geolocation of Cloudflare sites. Source: webatla index, July 2026.
Because Cloudflare answers for a domain from its own anycast edge, the country webatla records is the location of the Cloudflare IP serving the request, not the origin server and not the site owner. Cloudflare's address space is predominantly US-registered, so the map skews heavily to the United States regardless of where a site is actually run or read. This is the same effect hosted platforms produce — sites resolving to the vendor's infrastructure rather than the customer — and the mirror image of self-hosted WordPress, whose sites scatter across independent hosts worldwide. Read Cloudflare's geography as network geography, not audience geography.
Cloudflare and the wider delivery layer
The reverse-proxy count is only part of Cloudflare's footprint. The web also leans on asset and script CDNs, and Cloudflare sits in that layer too. Google Cloud CDN appears on 9,141,337 sites, cdnjs — a free script CDN maintained by Cloudflare — on 6,077,234, and jsDelivr on 5,086,086. Even setting the proxy business aside, one of the largest script CDNs on the web is a Cloudflare project. Counted together, the delivery and asset layer is one of the densest technology categories webatla tracks, and Cloudflare is either the leader or a major presence in every part of it.
Trends: the number that barely moved
Cloudflare's year-over-year change is -9.67% — a small move against an index full of steep drops. That matters because most technologies in this snapshot show large negative swings that reflect an index recount (a change in how live installations are counted between crawls): its own CDN rivals fell far harder, with Fastly down 42.00%, Amazon CloudFront down 47.01%, Google Cloud CDN down 68.83% and Akamai down 89.13%.
Cloudflare barely moved. The reason is its fingerprint: a site behind Cloudflare announces it on every response, unambiguously, so re-crawls detect it consistently while fuzzier signals get recounted. In practice that makes 54,437,496 the most reliable large number in the index — the one technology whose count you can quote with the least caveat. That stability, not just the size, is what marks Cloudflare as the web's default infrastructure.
How to see the list of websites using Cloudflare
You do not have to estimate any of this. The Cloudflare technology page on webatla is a live, filterable view of every site we detect behind Cloudflare. On it you can:
- Browse the running count of live websites that use Cloudflare (54,437,496 and updated as we re-crawl).
- Filter by top-level domain to isolate
.com,.shop,.orgor country endings. - Compare Cloudflare against Amazon CloudFront, Fastly and Akamai to see the full delivery-layer field.
That is the fastest way to turn "everything runs on Cloudflare" into an actual, workable list of sites that use Cloudflare.
Get the full list of websites that use Cloudflare
webatla maintains a live, filterable list of every Cloudflare site in the index — all 54,437,496 of them, sortable by TLD and country. It is the same data behind every chart above, kept current as we re-crawl the web.
→ Open the Cloudflare technology page to browse and filter the full list of sites protected by Cloudflare.
FAQ
How many websites use Cloudflare? webatla indexes 54,437,496 live websites that use Cloudflare as of July 2026 — 17.7% of every domain in the index, and the single most common technology tracked.
Is Cloudflare the biggest CDN? By a wide margin. At 54,437,496 sites it runs on 37× as many domains as Amazon CloudFront and more than 50× Fastly; Akamai shows just 25,532 live sites.
Why do most Cloudflare sites show as US-based? Because Cloudflare is a reverse proxy answering from its own US-registered anycast IPs. The country reflects the Cloudflare edge serving each domain, not the origin server or the site owner.
Does "protected by Cloudflare" mean hosted by Cloudflare? No. Cloudflare sits in front of a site as a CDN and security layer; the origin is usually hosted elsewhere. The site's domain points at Cloudflare, which is why webatla detects it on every request.
Where can I see a list of websites that use Cloudflare? Open the Cloudflare technology page on webatla, where the full list of live Cloudflare sites is filterable by country and TLD.