Is Cloudflare or GlobalSign more popular?

GlobalSign is used by more websites in our catalog: 888 use Cloudflare and 5,990 use GlobalSign.

Does Cloudflare or GlobalSign have higher-authority sites?

GlobalSign sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Cloudflare: 27, GlobalSign: 59).

Is Cloudflare or GlobalSign growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Cloudflare went from 0.12% to 0.10% of all tracked sites, while GlobalSign went from 0.85% to 0.68%. Cloudflare is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Cloudflare and GlobalSign?

No. A site runs a single SSL certificate authority, so Cloudflare and GlobalSign are mutually exclusive.

Where does this Cloudflare vs GlobalSign 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 GlobalSign — Site Stats Database

Cloudflare vs GlobalSign

A side-by-side comparison of two ssl certificate authorities, based on the 842,065 SSL Authority sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Cloudflare	GlobalSign
Websites	888	5,990
Market share	0.11%	0.71%
Share of top 10K sites	0.19%	1.7%

Rank	#13	#7

Median DR	27	59

Average DR	31	55

Median keywords	832	856

Median referring domains	351	1,477

Median domain age	14 yrs	22 yrs

Average domain age	15 yrs	21 yrs

Average monthly traffic	121,412	309,580

Combined monthly traffic	107,814,215	1,854,385,824

worldatlas.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords1,154,249
Referring Domains83,353
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)25,631,671
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare
carrier.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords109,462
Referring Domains20,061
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,502,261
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare
visa.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords104,842
Referring Domains67,229
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,433,458
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare
nmaahc.si.edu
Language
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords63,346
Referring Domains27,403
Domain Age34 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,188,883
Traffic Trend
Technology
biologyonline.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords206,401
Referring Domains11,428
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,864,746
Traffic Trend
Technology
ocean.si.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords76,961
Referring Domains11,637
Domain Age34 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,206,621
Traffic Trend
Technology
99restaurants.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)55
Total Keywords29,878
Referring Domains2,297
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,081,333
Traffic Trend
Technology
bestwordlist.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)42
Total Keywords124,340
Referring Domains2,383
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,733,167
Traffic Trend
Technology
americanhistory.si.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords150,962
Referring Domains35,692
Domain Age34 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,955,660
Traffic Trend
Technology
bryant.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords52,483
Referring Domains2,766
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,995,503
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
worldatlas.com	English	83	1,154,249	83,353	30 yrs	25,631,671		Cloudflare

walmart.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords22,196,316
Referring Domains287,795
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)430,824,067
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGlobalSign
bbc.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords3,887,532
Referring Domains716,813
Domain Age36 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)145,867,646
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGlobalSign
cnn.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords3,578,724
Referring Domains1,035,782
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)110,708,925
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGlobalSign
study.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)85
Total Keywords4,953,237
Referring Domains123,063
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)74,304,102
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGlobalSign
cars.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)85
Total Keywords2,101,260
Referring Domains76,702
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)44,939,914
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGlobalSign
aaa.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)88
Total Keywords1,133,231
Referring Domains81,033
Domain Age35 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)41,041,293
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGlobalSign
ncaa.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords450,724
Referring Domains61,708
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)38,619,244
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGlobalSign
bbc.co.uk
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords3,033,726
Referring Domains965,273
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)31,381,634
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGlobalSign
samsclub.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords1,233,117
Referring Domains51,918
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)31,229,729
Traffic Trend
Technology
ford.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)88
Total Keywords463,900
Referring Domains98,985
Domain Age37 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)26,031,294
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGlobalSign