Is Cloudflare or Cloudways more popular?

Cloudflare is used by more websites in our catalog: 262,652 use Cloudflare and 1,110 use Cloudways.

Does Cloudflare or Cloudways have higher-authority sites?

Cloudflare sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Cloudflare: 29, Cloudways: 25).

Is Cloudflare or Cloudways growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Cloudflare went from 36% to 30% of all tracked sites, while Cloudways went from 0.15% to 0.13%. Cloudways is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both Cloudflare and Cloudways?

603 websites in our catalog use both Cloudflare and Cloudways.

Where does this Cloudflare vs Cloudways 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 Cloudways — Site Stats Database

Cloudflare vs Cloudways

A side-by-side comparison of two hosting & cdn providers, based on the 404,518 Hosting / CDN sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Cloudflare	Cloudways
Websites	262,652	1,110
Market share	65%	0.27%
Share of top 10K sites	27%	0.07%

Rank	#1	#24

Median DR	29	25

Average DR	32	27

Median keywords	1,082	939

Median referring domains	414	315

Median domain age	12 yrs	10 yrs

Average domain age	14 yrs	12 yrs

Average monthly traffic	86,853	45,518

Combined monthly traffic	22,812,052,906	50,524,433

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
britannica.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords9,553,813
Referring Domains512,902
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)511,620,010
Traffic Trend
Technology
x.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)97
Total Keywords15,888,487
Referring Domains4,249,759
Domain Age33 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)354,173,918
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare
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
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
dictionary.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords3,387,790
Referring Domains129,246
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)242,622,664
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
thesaurus.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords1,253,792
Referring Domains42,419
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)206,651,155
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

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

thecozycook.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)65
Total Keywords214,494
Referring Domains17,944
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,670,727
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudways
columbia.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords134,403
Referring Domains12,357
Domain Age33 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,463,773
Traffic Trend
Technology
marcos.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)69
Total Keywords62,185
Referring Domains3,843
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,901,763
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudways
impactful.ninja
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords104,469
Referring Domains2,736
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,458,041
Traffic Trend
Technology
sorel.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords25,765
Referring Domains3,516
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,059,411
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudways
riderguide.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)56
Total Keywords9,450
Referring Domains885
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,197,045
Traffic Trend
Technology
commandlinux.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)59
Total Keywords9,443
Referring Domains907
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)964,891
Traffic Trend
Technology
gokartsusa.biz
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords17,062
Referring Domains466
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)743,595
Traffic Trend
Technology
museumofthebible.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords17,985
Referring Domains3,990
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)677,120
Traffic Trend
Technology
pcguide.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords171,955
Referring Domains13,159
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)673,624
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudways