Akamai vs NS1

NS1 is used by more websites in our catalog: 4,760 use Akamai and 12,424 use NS1.

Akamai sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Akamai: 65, NS1: 19).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Akamai went from 0.73% to 0.54% of all tracked sites, while NS1 went from 1.4% to 1.4%. NS1 is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single DNS provider, so Akamai and NS1 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.