Akamai vs nexcess.net

Akamai is used by more websites in our catalog: 4,760 use Akamai and 720 use nexcess.net.

Akamai sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Akamai: 65, nexcess.net: 26).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Akamai went from 0.73% to 0.54% of all tracked sites, while nexcess.net went from 0.09% to 0.08%. nexcess.net is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single DNS provider, so Akamai and nexcess.net are mutually exclusive.

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.