Is Cloudflare or NS1 more popular?

Cloudflare is used by more websites in our catalog: 234,838 use Cloudflare and 12,424 use NS1.

Does Cloudflare or NS1 have higher-authority sites?

Cloudflare sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Cloudflare: 32, NS1: 19).

Is Cloudflare or NS1 growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Cloudflare went from 32% to 27% of all tracked sites, while NS1 went from 1.4% to 1.4%. NS1 is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Cloudflare and NS1?

No. A site runs a single DNS provider, so Cloudflare and NS1 are mutually exclusive.

Where does this Cloudflare vs NS1 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 NS1 — Site Stats Database

Cloudflare vs NS1

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	NS1
Websites	234,838	12,424
Market share	28%	1.5%
Share of top 10K sites	28%	1.9%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#1	#11

Median DR	32	19

Average DR	33	25

Median keywords	1,185	650

Median referring domains	543	153

Median domain age	12 yrs	9 yrs

Average domain age	14 yrs	11 yrs

Average monthly traffic	94,956	424,078

Combined monthly traffic	22,299,384,176	5,268,742,964

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

yelp.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords34,240,481
Referring Domains773,122
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,590,167,976
Traffic Trend
TechnologyNS1
spotify.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)95
Total Keywords7,485,298
Referring Domains1,649,815
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)505,668,332
Traffic Trend
Technology
timeanddate.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords1,349,121
Referring Domains155,919
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)330,608,420
Traffic Trend
Technology
ebay.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords31,445,213
Referring Domains435,246
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)278,324,222
Traffic Trend
TechnologyNS1
linkedin.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)99
Total Keywords15,959,103
Referring Domains14,522,527
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)273,217,491
Traffic Trend
Technology
expedia.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords4,797,516
Referring Domains112,144
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)208,730,561
Traffic Trend
Technology
carfax.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords1,945,867
Referring Domains47,295
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)125,863,196
Traffic Trend
Technology
usatoday.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords5,248,227
Referring Domains596,283
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)110,399,781
Traffic Trend
Technology
hotels.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords2,438,674
Referring Domains58,009
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)107,434,804
Traffic Trend
Technology
cnbc.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords1,828,668
Referring Domains463,774
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)94,323,732
Traffic Trend
TechnologyNS1