Is Cloudflare or nic.ru more popular?

Cloudflare is used by more websites in our catalog: 234,838 use Cloudflare and 143 use nic.ru.

Does Cloudflare or nic.ru have higher-authority sites?

nic.ru sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Cloudflare: 32, nic.ru: 61).

Is Cloudflare or nic.ru growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Cloudflare went from 32% to 27% of all tracked sites, while nic.ru went from 0.02% to 0.02%. nic.ru is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Cloudflare and nic.ru?

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

Where does this Cloudflare vs nic.ru 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 nic.ru — Site Stats Database

Cloudflare vs nic.ru

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	nic.ru
Websites	234,838	143
Market share	28%	0.02%
Share of top 10K sites	28%	0.00%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#1	#231

Median DR	32	61

Average DR	33	53

Median keywords	1,185	308

Median referring domains	543	3,330

Median domain age	12 yrs	19 yrs

Average domain age	14 yrs	18 yrs

Average monthly traffic	94,956	7,116

Combined monthly traffic	22,299,384,176	1,017,530

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

tass.com
LanguageLithuanian
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords25,468
Referring Domains33,916
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)300,247
Traffic Trend
Technologynic.ru
kalashnikovgroup.ru
Language
DR (Ahrefs)56
Total Keywords1,730
Referring Domains3,330
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)84,624
Traffic Trend
Technology
rutube.ru
LanguageRussian
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords71,442
Referring Domains233,446
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)67,055
Traffic Trend
Technologynic.ru
ozon.ru
Language
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords89,518
Referring Domains98,973
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)52,667
Traffic Trend
Technologynic.ru
hudway.co
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)37
Total Keywords1,120
Referring Domains565
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)47,582
Traffic Trend
Technologynic.ru
forumspb.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords649
Referring Domains8,627
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)36,127
Traffic Trend
Technology
ixbt.games
LanguageRussian
DR (Ahrefs)57
Total Keywords21,790
Referring Domains4,743
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)27,754
Traffic Trend
Technologynic.ru
bolshoi.ru
Language
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords672
Referring Domains7,289
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)25,808
Traffic Trend
Technologynic.ru
forumvostok.ru
Language
DR (Ahrefs)65
Total Keywords215
Referring Domains2,800
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)25,238
Traffic Trend
Technology
kp.ru
LanguageRussian
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords1,352
Referring Domains77,244
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)22,093
Traffic Trend
Technologynic.ru