Is Cloudflare or Foundation DNS more popular?

Cloudflare is used by more websites in our catalog: 234,838 use Cloudflare and 568 use Foundation DNS.

Does Cloudflare or Foundation DNS have higher-authority sites?

Foundation DNS sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Cloudflare: 32, Foundation DNS: 64).

Is Cloudflare or Foundation DNS growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Cloudflare went from 32% to 27% of all tracked sites, while Foundation DNS went from 0.09% to 0.06%. Foundation DNS is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Cloudflare and Foundation DNS?

No. A site runs a single DNS provider, so Cloudflare and Foundation DNS are mutually exclusive.

Where does this Cloudflare vs Foundation DNS 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.

Cloudflare vs Foundation DNS — Site Stats Database

Cloudflare vs Foundation DNS

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	Cloudflare	Foundation DNS
Websites	234,838	568
Market share	28%	0.07%
Share of top 10K sites	28%	0.89%

Rank	#1	#76

Median DR	32	64

Average DR	33	61

Median keywords	1,185	4,396

Median referring domains	543	2,579

Median domain age	12 yrs	23 yrs

Average domain age	14 yrs	21 yrs

Average monthly traffic	94,956	2,163,402

Combined monthly traffic	22,299,384,176	1,228,812,188

clevelandclinic.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords5,266,698
Referring Domains262,751
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)536,244,433
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare
cambridge.org
Language
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords4,651,462
Referring Domains357,733
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)527,148,452
Traffic Trend
Technology
genius.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords3,824,896
Referring Domains148,123
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)274,953,050
Traffic Trend
Technology
indeed.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords6,459,977
Referring Domains289,179
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)259,330,877
Traffic Trend
Technology
collinsdictionary.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)85
Total Keywords4,460,852
Referring Domains60,613
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)208,986,815
Traffic Trend
Technology
vocabulary.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords2,454,757
Referring Domains42,680
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)192,093,469
Traffic Trend
Technology
wise.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords740,245
Referring Domains55,017
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)191,512,897
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare
rapidtables.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)79
Total Keywords410,849
Referring Domains12,076
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)177,772,574
Traffic Trend
Technology
cbssports.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)85
Total Keywords2,087,935
Referring Domains92,040
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)158,931,226
Traffic Trend
Technology
webmd.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords7,081,914
Referring Domains428,092
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)152,067,414
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
clevelandclinic.org	English	92	5,266,698	262,751	28 yrs	536,244,433		Cloudflare

allrecipes.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords3,491,845
Referring Domains151,904
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)166,334,891
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFoundation DNS
people.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords3,306,939
Referring Domains249,058
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)120,641,412
Traffic Trend
Technology
seriouseats.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords1,719,658
Referring Domains115,325
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)67,651,798
Traffic Trend
Technology
investopedia.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords2,098,866
Referring Domains406,047
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)66,831,883
Traffic Trend
Technology
kayak.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords2,410,381
Referring Domains65,916
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)61,496,142
Traffic Trend
TechnologyFoundation DNS
simplyrecipes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords992,573
Referring Domains70,052
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)37,946,046
Traffic Trend
Technology
verywellhealth.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords2,792,245
Referring Domains157,167
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)32,883,437
Traffic Trend
Technology
groupon.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords821,862
Referring Domains61,566
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)32,266,779
Traffic Trend
Technology
southernliving.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)86
Total Keywords2,110,038
Referring Domains83,089
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)30,390,710
Traffic Trend
Technology
thespruce.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords2,309,818
Referring Domains199,858
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)30,091,273
Traffic Trend
Technology