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Cloudflare dominates European content delivery network market in new study
A study shows Cloudflare serves nearly 90% of tracked European CDN users, according to Hacker News.
The short version
- CipherCue data reveals 39,547 of 44,143 monitored European firms using content delivery networks rely on Cloudflare.[Hacker News]
- Cloudflare's regional market share spans from roughly four in five businesses in Spain and Ireland to nineteen in twenty in the Netherlands.[Hacker News]
- Amazon, Fastly, and Akamai trail significantly behind Cloudflare among the tracked European businesses.[Hacker News]
- The dataset is not fully representative of all regional businesses and tilts toward small and medium-sized firms.[Hacker News]
Key facts
- CipherCue tracked 44,143 European companies using content delivery networks and found 39,547, or 89.6%, use Cloudflare.[Hacker News]
- Amazon ranked second with 3,112 detections, followed by Fastly at 1,299 and Akamai at 396.[Hacker News]
- Cloudflare's adoption ranges geographically from roughly 80% in Ireland and Spain to around 95% in the Netherlands.[Hacker News]
- W3Techs separately reported that Cloudflare accounted for 84.1% of identifiable reverse proxy provider sites as of late July 2026.[Hacker News]
What remains uncertain
- The sample analyzed by CipherCue is not representative of all companies across the covered nations and disproportionately reflects small and mid-sized enterprises.[Hacker News]
- Amazon's detection tally may encompass general cloud hosting on AWS instead of intentional CloudFront CDN use.[Hacker News]
Sources
Outlet counts describe coverage, not independent confirmation. Reports may share a wire service or original source.