Is Akamai or wordpress.com more popular?

wordpress.com is used by more websites in our catalog: 4,760 use Akamai and 8,074 use wordpress.com.

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

Akamai sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Akamai: 65, wordpress.com: 12).

Is Akamai or wordpress.com growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Akamai went from 0.73% to 0.54% of all tracked sites, while wordpress.com went from 0.93% to 0.92%. wordpress.com is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Akamai and wordpress.com?

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

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

Akamai vs wordpress.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	wordpress.com
Websites	4,760	8,074
Market share	0.57%	0.96%
Share of top 10K sites	5.7%	0.12%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#16	#12

Median DR	65	12

Average DR	61	17

Median keywords	2,153	867

Median referring domains	2,631	167

Median domain age	25 yrs	9 yrs

Average domain age	22 yrs	10 yrs

Average monthly traffic	1,920,754	31,506

Combined monthly traffic	9,142,787,231	254,381,451

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

recipetineats.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords844,549
Referring Domains59,630
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)55,020,972
Traffic Trend
Technologywordpress.com
wordpress.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)95
Total Keywords11,936,997
Referring Domains4,665,334
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)51,379,435
Traffic Trend
Technology
thewanderbug.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)27
Total Keywords20,613
Referring Domains475
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,006,552
Traffic Trend
Technology
culturalfoodies.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)25
Total Keywords6,148
Referring Domains440
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,998,834
Traffic Trend
Technology
thoughtcatalog.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords203,719
Referring Domains53,186
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,942,702
Traffic Trend
Technology
hollywoodlife.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords381,714
Referring Domains78,515
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,934,749
Traffic Trend
Technology
witchesofthecraft.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)35
Total Keywords28,737
Referring Domains1,221
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,289,776
Traffic Trend
Technology
wanderingindisney.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)19
Total Keywords18,631
Referring Domains702
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,255,306
Traffic Trend
Technology
smittenkitchen.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords83,271
Referring Domains36,100
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,251,221
Traffic Trend
Technology
consequence.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords264,522
Referring Domains52,877
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,141,511
Traffic Trend
Technology