CDN Used by UK wholesale: Market Share (2026)

Detected CDN usage across 5,772 of 76,007 trading UK wholesale companies, with Cloudflare accounting for 92.6% of detected companies.

Across 76,007 trading UK wholesale companies, 5,772 have a detectable CDN, with 10 systems detected. Cloudflare is the main fixture in this category, appearing at 92.6% (5,342) of detected companies.

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Amazon S3 appears in 7.9% (454) of detected wholesale companies, while Amazon CloudFront appears in 3.6% (208). Akamai is present at 1.2% (68), giving the larger named alternatives a much smaller footprint than Cloudflare.

The long tail is thin. ShortPixel and Bunny each appear at 0.6% (36), while Fastly is detected at 0.3% (19) and Section.io at 0.3% (15).

5,772

wholesale with detected CDN

Of 76,007 UK wholesale

7.6%

Detection rate

2026

10

Systems detected

In this category

92.6%

Leader share

Cloudflare

UK wholesale CDN market share

Section.io

Share of the 5,772 UK wholesale with a detectable system. As of June 2026.

CDN compared

SystemUK wholesaleShareMedian headcountLondon shareTypical profile
Cloudflare5,34292.6%616.2%Small wholesalers, broad detected use
Amazon S34547.9%613.4%Small wholesalers, secondary detected use
Amazon CloudFront2083.6%621.2%Small wholesalers, London-skewed use
Akamai681.2%514.7%Small wholesalers, narrow detected use
ShortPixel360.6%View these companies in Firmbase →
Bunny360.6%View these companies in Firmbase →
Fastly190.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Section.io150.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Filestack70.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
Uploadcare70.1%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

Under 10 employees

Cloudflare

92.7% of band

Under 10 employees contains 3,861 detected wholesale companies, led by Cloudflare at 92.7%. The remaining systems compete for a small share of mostly small wholesale operators.

10–50 employees

Cloudflare

92.8% of band

10–50 employees includes 1,697 detected companies, with Cloudflare at 92.8%. Competing systems remain fragmented rather than forming a clear second tier in this band.

Over 50 employees

Cloudflare

88.8% of band

Over 50 employees has 214 detected companies, and Cloudflare remains first at 88.8%. Its share is lower than in the smaller bands, leaving more room for Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Akamai and the rest of the detected field.

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 wholesale companies?
Cloudflare is the most-detected CDN among UK wholesale companies, with 92.6% share (5,342 of 5,772 companies with a detectable system), ahead of Amazon S3 (7.9%) and Amazon CloudFront (3.6%).
How many UK wholesale companies have a detectable CDN?
5,772 of 76,007 actively-trading UK wholesale companies (7.6%) 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: a system that caches and serves website assets such as images, scripts and files from distributed infrastructure. For UK wholesale companies, it supports public sites and trade-ordering pages by helping content load reliably for buyers, resellers and internal users.
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 wholesale companies, Cloudflare or Amazon S3?
Cloudflare: 5,342 detected companies versus 454 for Amazon S3, of the 5,772 UK wholesale companies with a detectable CDN.
What is the best CDN for UK wholesale companies?
This page publishes detected usage rather than recommendations, so “best” should be read as “most commonly detected” here. Cloudflare leads Under 10 employees with 92.7% of 3,861 companies, 10–50 employees with 92.8% of 1,697 companies, and Over 50 employees with 88.8% of 214 companies.

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