AWS CloudFront vs GitHub Pages

AWS CloudFront is used by more websites in our catalog: 23,983 use AWS CloudFront and 2,374 use GitHub Pages.

GitHub Pages sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (AWS CloudFront: 54, GitHub Pages: 66).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, AWS CloudFront went from 3.5% to 2.7% of all tracked sites, while GitHub Pages went from 0.30% to 0.27%. GitHub Pages is gaining ground faster in our index.

8 websites in our catalog use both AWS CloudFront and GitHub Pages.

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.