CDN Used by UK Sport & Leisure Companies: Market Share (2026)

Detected CDN usage across 2,596 UK Sport & Leisure companies, with Cloudflare used by 87.1% of detected sites.

Among 54,712 trading UK Sport & Leisure companies, 2,596 have a detectable CDN across 10 systems. Cloudflare is the default pattern in this detected market, with 87.1% share across 2,261 companies.

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Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront form the next tier, appearing at 11.0% (285 companies) and 10.7% (279 companies) respectively. Their median headcounts are close to Cloudflare’s: 6 employees for Amazon S3, 7 for Amazon CloudFront and 6 for Cloudflare.

Cloudflare’s position is consistent by employee band: 87.2% of detected companies under 10 employees, 86.6% of those with 10–50 employees and 89.2% of those over 50 employees. The long tail is small, with Akamai at 1.7% (44), Bunny at 0.9% (23), ShortPixel at 0.3% (9), Fastly at 0.3% (8), Section.io at 0.2% (4), and 2 further systems covering 2 companies.

2,600

Sport & Leisure with detected CDN

Of 54,978 UK Sport & Leisure

4.7%

Detection rate

2026

10

Systems detected

In this category

87.2%

Leader share

Cloudflare

UK Sport & Leisure CDN market share

Section.io
Other (2 systems)

Share of the 2,600 UK Sport & Leisure with a detectable system. As of June 2026.

CDN compared

SystemUK Sport & LeisureShareMedian headcountLondon shareTypical profile
Cloudflare2,26787.2%613.9%Small operators, broad category coverage
Amazon S328711%611.8%Small operators, storage-linked delivery
Amazon CloudFront27710.7%710.5%Slightly larger operators, cloud delivery
Akamai441.7%View these companies in Firmbase →
Bunny230.9%View these companies in Firmbase →
ShortPixel90.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Fastly80.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Section.io40.2%View these companies in Firmbase →
Uploadcare30.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
Filestack10%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 Sport & Leisure with under 10 employees, Cloudflare leads at 87.2% of the 1,640 with a detectable system; among UK Sport & Leisure with 10–50 employees, Cloudflare leads at 86.8% of the 821 with a detectable system; and among UK Sport & Leisure with over 50 employees, Cloudflare leads at 89.2% of the 139 with a detectable system.

Under 10 employees

Cloudflare

87.2% of band

Smaller Sport & Leisure operators make up the largest detected band, with 1,635 companies under 10 employees. Cloudflare accounts for 87.2% of this band, leaving Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront and the smaller systems to share the remainder.

10–50 employees

Cloudflare

86.8% of band

Mid-sized Sport & Leisure companies account for 822 detected CDN users. Cloudflare remains the main system here with 86.6% share, while Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront sit in the secondary tier.

Over 50 employees

Cloudflare

89.2% of band

Larger Sport & Leisure companies are a smaller detected cohort, at 139 companies. Cloudflare has 89.2% share in this band, so the market is more concentrated than in the 10–50 employee band.

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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UK Sport & Leisure by CDN

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Frequently asked questions

What is the most-used CDN among UK Sport & Leisure companies?
Cloudflare is the most-detected CDN among UK Sport & Leisure companies, with 87.2% share (2,267 of 2,600 companies with a detectable system), ahead of Amazon S3 (11%) and Amazon CloudFront (10.7%).
How many UK Sport & Leisure companies have a detectable CDN?
2,600 of 54,978 actively-trading UK Sport & Leisure companies (4.7%) 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 stores and serves website or app content from distributed infrastructure, reducing the distance between Sport & Leisure customers and the files they request. For UK Sport & Leisure companies, it typically supports booking pages, media-heavy sites, event content and customer-facing digital services.
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 Sport & Leisure companies, Cloudflare or Amazon S3?
Cloudflare: 2,267 detected companies versus 287 for Amazon S3, of the 2,600 UK Sport & Leisure companies with a detectable CDN.
What is the best CDN for UK Sport & Leisure companies?
This page publishes observed usage, not recommendations, so there is no single best CDN for every UK Sport & Leisure company. Cloudflare has the largest detected share in every employee band: 87.2% among Under 10 employees, 86.6% among 10–50 employees and 89.2% among Over 50 employees. Across all detected companies, Cloudflare accounts for 87.1% (2261), followed by Amazon S3 at 11.0% (285) and Amazon CloudFront at 10.7% (279).

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