Is Cloudflare or softlayer.com more popular?

Cloudflare is used by more websites in our catalog: 234,838 use Cloudflare and 175 use softlayer.com.

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

softlayer.com sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Cloudflare: 32, softlayer.com: 35).

Is Cloudflare or softlayer.com growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Cloudflare went from 32% to 27% 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 Cloudflare and softlayer.com?

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

Where does this Cloudflare 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.

Cloudflare vs softlayer.com — Site Stats Database

Cloudflare 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	Cloudflare	softlayer.com
Websites	234,838	175
Market share	28%	0.02%
Share of top 10K sites	28%	0.02%

Rank	#1	#197

Median DR	32	35

Average DR	33	36

Median keywords	1,185	1,062

Median referring domains	543	719

Median domain age	12 yrs	19 yrs

Average domain age	14 yrs	18 yrs

Average monthly traffic	94,956	94,337

Combined monthly traffic	22,299,384,176	16,508,965

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
TechnologyCloudflare
indeed.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords6,459,977
Referring Domains289,179
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)259,330,877
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare
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
TechnologyCloudflare

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

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
Technologysoftlayer.com
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
Technologysoftlayer.com