Is Akamai or Bluehost/HostGator more popular?

Bluehost/HostGator is used by more websites in our catalog: 4,760 use Akamai and 18,060 use Bluehost/HostGator.

Does Akamai or Bluehost/HostGator have higher-authority sites?

Akamai sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Akamai: 65, Bluehost/HostGator: 12).

Is Akamai or Bluehost/HostGator growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Akamai went from 0.73% to 0.54% of all tracked sites, while Bluehost/HostGator went from 2.0% to 2.1%. Bluehost/HostGator is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Akamai and Bluehost/HostGator?

No. A site runs a single DNS provider, so Akamai and Bluehost/HostGator are mutually exclusive.

Where does this Akamai vs Bluehost/HostGator data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.

Akamai vs Bluehost/HostGator — Site Stats Database

Akamai vs Bluehost/HostGator

A side-by-side comparison of two dns providers, based on the 840,922 DNS Provider sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Akamai	Bluehost/HostGator
Websites	4,760	18,060
Market share	0.57%	2.1%
Share of top 10K sites	5.7%	0.15%

Rank	#16	#7

Median DR	65	12

Average DR	61	16

Median keywords	2,153	798

Median referring domains	2,631	183

Median domain age	25 yrs	11 yrs

Average domain age	22 yrs	12 yrs

Average monthly traffic	1,920,754	15,701

Combined monthly traffic	9,142,787,231	283,551,948

weather.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,156,559
Referring Domains130,903
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)560,457,254
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAkamai
mayoclinic.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords4,487,264
Referring Domains408,066
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)452,253,303
Traffic Trend
Technology
accuweather.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,212,850
Referring Domains102,315
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)437,528,273
Traffic Trend
Technology
tiktok.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)97
Total Keywords58,180,430
Referring Domains3,979,372
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)383,786,862
Traffic Trend
Technology
homedepot.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords7,651,168
Referring Domains156,486
Domain Age33 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)362,342,941
Traffic Trend
Technology
adobe.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)96
Total Keywords4,590,632
Referring Domains1,640,623
Domain Age39 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)293,123,914
Traffic Trend
Technology
nba.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords758,560
Referring Domains186,338
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)239,244,892
Traffic Trend
TechnologyAkamai
weather.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords1,098,961
Referring Domains132,221
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)221,232,646
Traffic Trend
Technology
target.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords10,174,393
Referring Domains208,795
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)204,573,119
Traffic Trend
Technology
lowes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)88
Total Keywords4,826,414
Referring Domains158,334
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)135,785,869
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
weather.com	English	90	1,156,559	130,903	31 yrs	560,457,254		Akamai

mediterraneantaste.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)6
Total Keywords7,257
Referring Domains133
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,859,057
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBluehost/HostGator
color-meanings.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords63,613
Referring Domains7,080
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,481,644
Traffic Trend
Technology
kylesconverter.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords108,819
Referring Domains1,052
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,291,902
Traffic Trend
Technology
emeraldpalate.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)41
Total Keywords38,624
Referring Domains1,861
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,968,431
Traffic Trend
Technology
sungoldpower.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)44
Total Keywords7,083
Referring Domains694
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,842,880
Traffic Trend
Technology
piano-keyboard-guide.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords21,244
Referring Domains1,645
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,780,891
Traffic Trend
Technology
wanderyourway.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)44
Total Keywords10,919
Referring Domains557
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,744,611
Traffic Trend
Technology
uglychristmassweater.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)59
Total Keywords14,101
Referring Domains1,982
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,529,110
Traffic Trend
Technology
restauranthoppen.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)23
Total Keywords7,469
Referring Domains586
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,369,055
Traffic Trend
Technology
alicesparklykat.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)40
Total Keywords17,960
Referring Domains808
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,305,263
Traffic Trend
Technology