Hosting and CDN adoption 2026
Last updated 2026-09-03
Key findings
- Cloudflare runs on 50.0% of the 8,130 company websites crawled, the most of any Hosting and CDN tool.
- Cloudflare share runs from 41.5% in Biotechnology to 57.9% in Administrative Services.
- Cloudflare is most common at 51-200 employees, on 57.5% of sites in that band.
- Cloudflare share is highest in the United States, at 51.9% of crawled sites there.
- jsDelivr share runs from 7.7% in Biotechnology to 17.6% in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
- In Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloudflare is the most used Hosting and CDN tool, on 52.2% of crawled sites.
- In Financial Services, Cloudflare is the most used Hosting and CDN tool, on 51.9% of crawled sites.
- In Biotechnology, Cloudflare is the most used Hosting and CDN tool, on 41.5% of crawled sites.
Cloudflare runs on 50.0% of the 8,130 company websites crawled, the most of any Hosting and CDN tool.
Cloudflare was found on 4,061 sites. jsDelivr came second with 1,117. Shares are of the whole sample, and a site can run more than one tool, so the bars do not add up to 100.
Cloudflare share runs from 41.5% in Biotechnology to 57.9% in Administrative Services.
Administrative Services: 190 of 328 crawled sites run Cloudflare. Biotechnology: 216 of 521. Only industries with at least 150 crawled sites are compared here; the tool page lists the rest.
Cloudflare is most common at 51-200 employees, on 57.5% of sites in that band.
1,081 of the 1,881 crawled sites with 51-200 employees run Cloudflare. At 11-50 employees the share is 47.7%.
Cloudflare share is highest in the United States, at 51.9% of crawled sites there.
2,793 of the 5,384 crawled United States sites run Cloudflare, against 50.0% across all countries. Countries with fewer than 150 crawled sites are not compared.
jsDelivr share runs from 7.7% in Biotechnology to 17.6% in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Artificial Intelligence (AI): 283 of 1,606 crawled sites run jsDelivr. Biotechnology: 40 of 521. Only industries with at least 150 crawled sites are compared here; the tool page lists the rest.
In Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloudflare is the most used Hosting and CDN tool, on 52.2% of crawled sites.
1,606 crawled sites are labelled Artificial Intelligence (AI), and 839 of them run Cloudflare. jsDelivr follows at 17.6%.
In Financial Services, Cloudflare is the most used Hosting and CDN tool, on 51.9% of crawled sites.
536 crawled sites are labelled Financial Services, and 278 of them run Cloudflare. jsDelivr follows at 17.5%.
In Biotechnology, Cloudflare is the most used Hosting and CDN tool, on 41.5% of crawled sites.
521 crawled sites are labelled Biotechnology, and 216 of them run Cloudflare. Nginx follows at 18.2%.
Attrition funnel
| Step | Count |
|---|---|
| Domains selected for the sample Company domains drawn from the source universe. |
30,000 |
| Homepage fetched A response was returned for the request. |
8,948 |
| Fetch succeeded A 200 response with a readable HTML body. |
8,130 |
| Firmographics joined Industry, country and employee band all present. The base every share on this site is divided by. |
8,130 |
Named failures
| Reason | Count | Share of attempted |
|---|---|---|
| HTTP 502 | 249 | 2.8% |
| HTTP 403 | 243 | 2.7% |
| Connection timeout | 205 | 2.3% |
| SSL error | 55 | 0.6% |
| HTTP 429 (rate limited) | 20 | 0.2% |
| HTTP 503 | 11 | 0.1% |
| HTTP 500 | 9 | 0.1% |
| Connect | 5 | 0.1% |
| Proxy error | 4 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 401 | 4 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 526 | 3 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 530 | 2 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 521 | 2 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 525 | 2 | 0.0% |
| Too many redirects | 2 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 523 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Http520 | 1 | 0.0% |
Cite this
Cloudflare runs on 50.0% of the 8,130 company websites crawled, the most of any Hosting and CDN tool. , https://installmap.com/stats/hosting-cdn, Installmap, September 2026.
Last updated 2026-09-03