Is Akamai or softlayer.com more popular?

Akamai is used by more websites in our catalog: 4,760 use Akamai and 175 use softlayer.com.

Does Akamai or softlayer.com have higher-authority sites?

Akamai sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Akamai: 65, softlayer.com: 35).

Is Akamai or softlayer.com growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Akamai went from 0.73% to 0.54% of all tracked sites, while softlayer.com went from 0.03% to 0.02%. softlayer.com is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Akamai and softlayer.com?

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

Where does this Akamai vs softlayer.com 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 softlayer.com — Site Stats Database

Akamai vs softlayer.com

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	softlayer.com
Websites	4,760	175
Market share	0.57%	0.02%
Share of top 10K sites	5.7%	0.02%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#16	#197

Median DR	65	35

Average DR	61	36

Median keywords	2,153	1,062

Median referring domains	2,631	719

Median domain age	25 yrs	19 yrs

Average domain age	22 yrs	18 yrs

Average monthly traffic	1,920,754	94,337

Combined monthly traffic	9,142,787,231	16,508,965

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

cricbuzz.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords85,062
Referring Domains21,473
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,651,395
Traffic Trend
Technologysoftlayer.com
bimmerpost.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)65
Total Keywords123,568
Referring Domains11,437
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,074,489
Traffic Trend
Technology
bridgebase.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords3,010
Referring Domains3,460
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)803,428
Traffic Trend
Technology
visitaruba.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords10,690
Referring Domains4,994
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)467,525
Traffic Trend
Technology
e90post.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)51
Total Keywords45,082
Referring Domains5,314
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)261,745
Traffic Trend
Technology
imleagues.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)65
Total Keywords23,120
Referring Domains2,755
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)242,107
Traffic Trend
Technology
natalieportman.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)38
Total Keywords1,759
Referring Domains2,129
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)231,928
Traffic Trend
Technology
insurancejournal.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords42,677
Referring Domains33,706
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)154,812
Traffic Trend
Technology
racctrusted.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords17,458
Referring Domains640
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)143,795
Traffic Trend
Technology
xbimmers.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)38
Total Keywords26,351
Referring Domains2,631
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)134,191
Traffic Trend
Technology