CDN Used by UK Fashion Retail Companies: Market Share (2026)

Detected CDN use across 3,061 of 119,795 trading UK fashion retail companies, with Cloudflare the clear leader at 94.2% of detections.

Among 119,795 trading UK fashion retail companies, 3,061 have a detectable CDN. Cloudflare accounts for 94.2% of detected usage, with 2,884 companies, while Amazon CloudFront is at 4.0% (122) and Akamai at 2.3% (69).

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Cloudflare sits above 94.0% in every employee band: 94.3% among 2,091 detected companies under 10 employees, 94.0% among 867 companies with 10–50 employees, and 95.1% among 103 companies over 50 employees.

The long tail is thin, with 11 systems detected in total. ShortPixel appears at 0.6% (17 companies), Bunny at 0.5% (16), and Uploadcare, Fastly and Sirv each at 0.3% (10); 3 further systems cover 7 companies.

3,061

fashion retail with detected CDN

Of 119,795 UK fashion retail

2.6%

Detection rate

2026

11

Systems detected

In this category

94.2%

Leader share

Cloudflare

UK Fashion Retail CDN market share

Uploadcare
Sirv
Other (3 systems)

Share of the 3,061 UK Fashion Retail with a detectable system. As of June 2026.

CDN compared

SystemUK Fashion RetailShareMedian headcountLondon shareTypical profile
Cloudflare2,88494.2%621.8%Small retailers, market default
Amazon CloudFront1224%837.7%Small retailers, London-skewed
Akamai692.3%431.9%Micro retailers, London-leaning
ShortPixel170.6%View these companies in Firmbase →
Bunny160.5%View these companies in Firmbase →
Uploadcare100.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Fastly100.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Sirv100.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Cloudimage60.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
Filestack50.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
Section.io50.2%View these companies in Firmbase →

Systems detected below the page threshold appear with counts only; their full lists are available in the Firmbase app.

Market leader by size

The leading CDN system shifts with company size: among UK Fashion Retail with under 10 employees, Cloudflare leads at 94.3% of the 2,091 with a detectable system; among UK Fashion Retail with 10–50 employees, Cloudflare leads at 94% of the 867 with a detectable system; and among UK Fashion Retail with over 50 employees, Cloudflare leads at 95.1% of the 103 with a detectable system.

Under 10 employees

Cloudflare

94.3% of band

This is the largest detected band, with 2,091 companies. Cloudflare leads at 94.3%, so the small-retailer market is mostly a single-system picture, with alternatives appearing at much lower levels.

10–50 employees

Cloudflare

94% of band

There are 867 detected companies in this band, and Cloudflare leads at 94.0%. Amazon CloudFront and Akamai compete as smaller alternatives, rather than forming a separate mid-market pattern.

Over 50 employees

Cloudflare

95.1% of band

This band has 103 detected companies, the smallest of the three. Cloudflare leads at 95.1%, so larger fashion retailers look similar to the smaller bands on CDN choice.

How CDN usage is detected

Methodology

Company data

Detected companies are joined to UK Companies House records and XBRL accounts data. Revenue and headcount figures come from the most recent filed accounts; where the company has not filed, values are estimated using a model trained on filed history and peer benchmarks and are labelled as estimates.

Detection

Firmbase crawls the public website of actively-trading UK companies and fingerprints the technologies present: tracking scripts, embedded forms, chat widgets, CMS markers and similar signatures. A company is included in this list when one or more of the technology's signatures are found on its site; closely-related variants of the same product are grouped under one name. Detection covers what is visible on the public web — a company using the technology purely internally, with no website footprint, will not appear. Counts are therefore a conservative floor, not a ceiling.

Freshness

Websites are re-crawled on a rolling basis and the underlying company data is refreshed from Companies House continuously; filings appear within days of submission. The list and its statistics are regenerated when the detected cohort moves meaningfully. You can see the last-updated timestamp near the top of the page.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the most-used CDN among UK fashion retail companies?
Cloudflare is the most-detected CDN among UK fashion retail companies, with 94.2% share (2,884 of 3,061 companies with a detectable system), ahead of Amazon CloudFront (4%) and Akamai (2.3%).
How many UK fashion retail companies have a detectable CDN?
3,061 of 119,795 actively-trading UK fashion retail companies (2.6%) have a CDN detectable from their public website. The remainder either run systems with no public web footprint or none at all, so detected share figures are a conservative floor.
What is a CDN?
A CDN is a content delivery network that caches and serves website assets, such as images, scripts and pages, from infrastructure closer to the user. For UK fashion retail companies, the job is to keep product browsing, campaign pages and checkout assets responsive when shoppers arrive from different locations or traffic sources.
How is CDN usage detected?
Firmbase crawls the public website of every actively-trading company in this scope and fingerprints the technologies present — scripts, widgets, booking and checkout flows. A company is attributed to a system when that system's signatures are found; systems with no public web footprint are not attributable, which is why every share figure on this page means share of companies with a detectable system.
Which has more UK fashion retail companies, Cloudflare or Amazon CloudFront?
Cloudflare: 2,884 detected companies versus 122 for Amazon CloudFront, of the 3,061 UK fashion retail companies with a detectable CDN.
What is the best CDN for UK fashion retail companies?
The page publishes measured usage rather than recommendations, so it does not name a single best CDN. Among detected UK fashion retail companies, Cloudflare leads every employee band: 94.3% of 2,091 companies under 10 employees, 94.0% of 867 companies with 10–50 employees, and 95.1% of 103 companies over 50 employees. Across all 3,061 detected companies, Cloudflare is at 94.2% (2,884), followed by Amazon CloudFront at 4.0% (122) and Akamai at 2.3% (69).

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