Is Cloudflare or Microsoft more popular?

Cloudflare is used by more websites in our catalog: 888 use Cloudflare and 348 use Microsoft.

Does Cloudflare or Microsoft have higher-authority sites?

Microsoft sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Cloudflare: 27, Microsoft: 92).

Is Cloudflare or Microsoft growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Cloudflare went from 0.12% to 0.10% of all tracked sites, while Microsoft went from 0.04% to 0.04%. Microsoft is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Cloudflare and Microsoft?

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

Where does this Cloudflare vs Microsoft 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 Microsoft — Site Stats Database

Cloudflare vs Microsoft

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	Microsoft
Websites	888	348
Market share	0.11%	0.04%
Share of top 10K sites	0.19%	0.16%

Rank	#13	#22

Median DR	27	92

Average DR	31	75

Median keywords	832	890

Median referring domains	351	382

Median domain age	14 yrs	22 yrs

Average domain age	15 yrs	21 yrs

Average monthly traffic	121,412	942,292

Combined monthly traffic	107,814,215	327,917,680

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
Technology
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
Technology

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

microsoft.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)96
Total Keywords3,038,378
Referring Domains2,803,353
Domain Age35 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)168,600,293
Traffic Trend
TechnologyMicrosoft
msn.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords4,221,283
Referring Domains642,086
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)33,417,289
Traffic Trend
TechnologyMicrosoft
xbox.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords545,652
Referring Domains130,735
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)25,155,602
Traffic Trend
TechnologyMicrosoft
cloud.microsoft
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords155,714
Referring Domains128,832
Domain Age10 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)18,365,324
Traffic Trend
Technology
live.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords49,818
Referring Domains917,242
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)17,710,146
Traffic Trend
TechnologyMicrosoft
minecraft.net
Language
DR (Ahrefs)89
Total Keywords244,170
Referring Domains73,149
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)12,267,496
Traffic Trend
Technology
office.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords116,220
Referring Domains911,089
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,200,894
Traffic Trend
Technology
bing.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords142,155
Referring Domains600,638
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)11,042,257
Traffic Trend
TechnologyMicrosoft
office365.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords11,374
Referring Domains90,088
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,520,814
Traffic Trend
Technology
sharepoint.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords116,689
Referring Domains315,187
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,942,027
Traffic Trend
Technology