CDN Used by UK Wholesale Companies: Market Share (2026)

Detected CDN usage across 5,614 UK wholesale companies, with Cloudflare used by 95.6% of companies where a CDN is identifiable.

Across 77,014 trading UK wholesale companies, 5,614 have a detectable CDN. Cloudflare accounts for 95.6% (5,367) of those detections, leaving a small remainder across 10 other systems.

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Amazon CloudFront is the next largest system at 3.7% (207), followed by Akamai at 1.2% (65). Bunny and ShortPixel each account for 0.6% (36), while Fastly, Cloudimage and Section.io sit between 0.3% (19) and 0.3% (15).

Cloudflare leads every employee-size band: 95.4% among Under 10 employees, 96.1% among 10–50 employees, and 94.6% among Over 50 employees. The long tail is thin, with 3 further systems covering 7 companies.

5,614

wholesale with detected CDN

Of 77,014 UK wholesale

7.3%

Detection rate

2026

11

Systems detected

In this category

95.6%

Leader share

Cloudflare

UK Wholesale CDN market share

Cloudimage
Section.io
Other (3 systems)

Share of the 5,614 UK Wholesale with a detectable system. As of June 2026.

CDN compared

SystemUK WholesaleShareMedian headcountLondon shareTypical profile
Cloudflare5,36795.6%616%6-headcount wholesalers, 95.6% share
Amazon CloudFront2073.7%621.3%6-headcount wholesalers, 3.7% share
Akamai651.2%616.9%6-headcount wholesalers, 1.2% share
Bunny360.6%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
ShortPixel360.6%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Fastly190.3%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Cloudimage160.3%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Section.io150.3%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Sirv110.2%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Uploadcare80.1%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →
Filestack70.1%Buy these companies as a spreadsheet →

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 Wholesale with under 10 employees, Cloudflare leads at 95.4% of the 3,765 with a detectable system; among UK Wholesale with 10–50 employees, Cloudflare leads at 96.1% of the 1,644 with a detectable system; and among UK Wholesale with over 50 employees, Cloudflare leads at 94.6% of the 205 with a detectable system.

Under 10 employees

Cloudflare

95.4% of band

Under 10 employees covers 3,765 wholesale companies with a detectable CDN. Cloudflare is used by 95.4%, leaving Amazon CloudFront, Akamai and smaller systems to divide a narrow remainder.

10–50 employees

Cloudflare

96.1% of band

10–50 employees contains 1,644 detected wholesale companies. Cloudflare has the highest share at 96.1%, so competition is mostly for a small minority of deployments.

Over 50 employees

Cloudflare

94.6% of band

Over 50 employees is the smallest detected band, with 205 wholesale companies. Cloudflare still leads at 94.6%, with the remaining systems present only at limited scale.

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 95.6% share (5,367 of 5,614 companies with a detectable system), ahead of Amazon CloudFront (3.7%) and Akamai (1.2%).
How many UK wholesale companies have a detectable CDN?
5,614 of 77,014 actively-trading UK wholesale companies (7.3%) 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 assets from distributed infrastructure, reducing the distance between a visitor and the files being requested. For UK wholesale companies, it typically supports catalogue pages, account portals, order journeys and other web services where speed and availability affect trading activity.
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 CloudFront?
Cloudflare: 5,367 detected companies versus 207 for Amazon CloudFront, of the 5,614 UK wholesale companies with a detectable CDN.
What is the best CDN for UK wholesale companies?
This page publishes observed usage rather than recommendations. Cloudflare leads Under 10 employees at 95.4% of 3,765 companies, 10–50 employees at 96.1% of 1,644 companies, and Over 50 employees at 94.6% of 205 companies; across all detected CDN use, it has 95.6% (5,367), ahead of Amazon CloudFront at 3.7% (207) and Akamai at 1.2% (65).

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