Is Cloudflare Stream or YouTube more popular?

YouTube is used by more websites in our catalog: 795 use Cloudflare Stream and 82,680 use YouTube.

Does Cloudflare Stream or YouTube have higher-authority sites?

YouTube sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Cloudflare Stream: 26, YouTube: 29).

Is Cloudflare Stream or YouTube growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Cloudflare Stream went from 0.10% to 0.09% of all tracked sites, while YouTube went from 11% to 9.4%. Cloudflare Stream is gaining ground faster in our index.

How many sites use both Cloudflare Stream and YouTube?

80 websites in our catalog use both Cloudflare Stream and YouTube.

Where does this Cloudflare Stream vs YouTube 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 Stream vs YouTube — Site Stats Database

Cloudflare Stream vs YouTube

A side-by-side comparison of two video players & hosts, based on the 114,821 Video sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Cloudflare Stream	YouTube
Websites	795	82,680
Market share	0.69%	72%
Share of top 10K sites	0.10%	7.3%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#7	#1

Median DR	26	29

Average DR	31	31

Median keywords	810	977

Median referring domains	299	386

Median domain age	12 yrs	13 yrs

Average domain age	14 yrs	15 yrs

Average monthly traffic	86,197	88,414

Combined monthly traffic	68,526,412	7,310,056,587

nist.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords317,267
Referring Domains173,856
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)12,700,753
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare Stream
mskcc.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords320,494
Referring Domains37,006
Domain Age36 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,789,674
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare Stream
grammy.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords128,568
Referring Domains63,170
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,447,908
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare Stream
puregym.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords165,783
Referring Domains6,851
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)4,665,741
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare Stream
dolcegabbana.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords12,639
Referring Domains22,768
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,952,423
Traffic Trend
Technology
dexerto.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords1,001,815
Referring Domains78,177
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,598,036
Traffic Trend
TechnologyCloudflare Stream
massaudubon.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords84,159
Referring Domains8,926
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,557,022
Traffic Trend
Technology
bobswatches.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords84,795
Referring Domains8,508
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,306,320
Traffic Trend
Technology
pauladeen.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)67
Total Keywords98,765
Referring Domains14,341
Domain Age23 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,228,965
Traffic Trend
Technology
staplesadvantage.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords48,459
Referring Domains2,203
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,604,056
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
nist.gov	English	92	317,267	173,856	28 yrs	12,700,753		Cloudflare Stream

google.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)99
Total Keywords14,321,906
Referring Domains28,301,335
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,697,994,676
Traffic Trend
TechnologyYouTube
foxsports.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)84
Total Keywords1,959,858
Referring Domains84,333
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)103,702,948
Traffic Trend
Technology
nike.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords994,389
Referring Domains181,640
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)83,799,562
Traffic Trend
TechnologyYouTube
irs.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords973,833
Referring Domains280,852
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)75,413,891
Traffic Trend
TechnologyYouTube
go.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords913,868
Referring Domains604,602
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)72,794,971
Traffic Trend
TechnologyYouTube
byjus.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords1,666,559
Referring Domains55,721
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)65,601,851
Traffic Trend
TechnologyYouTube
basketball-reference.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)80
Total Keywords346,107
Referring Domains21,573
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)61,312,972
Traffic Trend
Technology
baseball-reference.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords421,618
Referring Domains30,500
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)57,651,263
Traffic Trend
Technology
blog.google
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords120,658
Referring Domains140,142
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)51,746,565
Traffic Trend
TechnologyYouTube
wikihow.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords5,580,639
Referring Domains404,808
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)43,976,309
Traffic Trend
TechnologyYouTube