A side-by-side comparison of two hosting & cdn providers, based on the 404,518 Hosting / CDN sites tracked by Site Stats Database.
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| Metric | AWS CloudFront | WP Engine |
|---|---|---|
| Websites | 23,983 | 4,413 |
| Market share | 5.9% | 1.1% |
| Share of top 10K sites | 10% | 0.32% |
| Share of top 100K sites |
| 5.5% |
| 0.54% |
| Rank | #3 | #17 |
|---|
| Median DR | 54 | 31 |
|---|
| Average DR | 50 | 33 |
|---|
| Median keywords | 1,495 | 1,098 |
|---|
| Median referring domains | 1,214 | 390 |
|---|
| Median domain age | 17 yrs | 16 yrs |
|---|
| Average domain age | 17 yrs | 17 yrs |
|---|
| Average monthly traffic | 691,801 | 66,257 |
|---|
| Combined monthly traffic | 16,591,455,255 | 292,394,344 |
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Monthly snapshots of each segment, 2026-06 to 2026-07. Website counts move when our catalog grows; the share of tracked sites is normalized, so it only moves when real prevalence changes.
Websites
Share of tracked sites
Combined monthly traffic
23,983 websites · rank #3
Top industries
Top markets
4,413 websites · rank #17
Top industries
Top markets
AWS CloudFront is used by more websites in our catalog: 23,983 use AWS CloudFront and 4,413 use WP Engine.
AWS CloudFront sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (AWS CloudFront: 54, WP Engine: 31).
Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, AWS CloudFront went from 3.5% to 2.7% of all tracked sites, while WP Engine went from 0.54% to 0.50%. WP Engine is gaining ground faster in our index.
26 websites in our catalog use both AWS CloudFront and WP Engine.
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.
Citation
Site Stats Database. "AWS CloudFront vs WP Engine." Site Stats Database, July 1, 2026. https://sitestatsdb.com/technologies/hosting/compare/aws-cloudfront-vs-wp-engine
Site Stats Database tracks 23,983 websites using AWS CloudFront and 4,413 using WP Engine, each enriched with full monthly traffic history, authority, keywords, referring domains, and the complete detected tech stack. We detect every hosting or CDN provider by crawling each site's HTML, response headers, and DNS; traffic and SEO metrics come from DataForSEO and Ahrefs. Everything refreshes at least monthly.
See plans & pricing| English |
| 94 |
| 12,598,022 |
| 947,689 |
| 30 yrs |
| 2,387,444,775 |
| AWS CloudFront |
| merriam-webster.com | English | 91 | 4,579,269 | 240,838 | 27 yrs | 1,467,281,883 | AWS CloudFront |
| espn.com | English | 91 | 4,106,588 | 255,313 | 31 yrs | 1,425,283,167 | AWS CloudFront |
| zillow.com | English | 92 | 4,129,056 | 181,223 | 21 yrs | 275,243,255 | AWS CloudFront |
| mapquest.com | English | 91 | 26,333,561 | 116,999 | 30 yrs | 253,392,926 | AWS CloudFront |
| healthline.com | English | 92 | 7,041,614 | 458,961 | 21 yrs | 220,346,497 | AWS CloudFront |
| gettyimages.com | English | 89 | 5,589,590 | 272,498 | 27 yrs | 146,264,162 | AWS CloudFront |
| istockphoto.com | English | 91 | 4,131,936 | 1,685,041 | 26 yrs | 127,970,606 | AWS CloudFront |
| xe.com | English | 90 | 320,559 | 58,181 | 31 yrs | 124,921,364 | AWS CloudFront |
| English |
| 83 |
| 1,969,015 |
| 21,160 |
| 15 yrs |
| 9,409,536 |
| WP Engine |
| helpguide.org | English | 87 | 195,310 | 74,165 | 26 yrs | 8,351,300 | WP Engine |
| public.com | English | 75 | 248,426 | 8,469 | 28 yrs | 7,524,275 | WP Engine |
| northeastern.edu | English | 87 | 224,224 | 66,524 | 40 yrs | 5,372,898 | WP Engine |
| thegoodtrade.com | English | 77 | 193,891 | 13,520 | 11 yrs | 4,068,658 | WP Engine |
| fogodechao.com | English | 72 | 42,866 | 8,220 | 27 yrs | 3,706,414 | WP Engine |
| fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu | English | 79 | 27,602 | 4,264 | 30 yrs | 3,135,798 | WP Engine |
| stamps.com | English | 77 | 45,113 | 8,499 | 31 yrs | 3,112,476 | WP Engine |
| secretaryofstate.com | English | 60 | 18,041 | 407 | 27 yrs | 2,536,831 | WP Engine |