Most-Used CDN by UK Companies (2026)

Shows detected CDN market share across 61,072 UK companies; Cloudflare is the leader at 89.5%, followed by Amazon CloudFront at 7.9% and Amazon S3 at 7.7%.

CDN use is visible at 61,072 of 2,038,354 trading UK companies, with 11 systems detected. Cloudflare accounts for 89.5% (54,650), ahead of Amazon CloudFront at 7.9% (4,804) and Amazon S3 at 7.7% (4,680).

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Cloudflare is first in every employee-size band: 90.1% of 40,723 companies under 10 employees, 88.2% of 17,873 companies with 10–50 employees, and 88.7% of 2,476 companies over 50 employees.

The long tail is small. Akamai reaches 1.2% (736), Bunny and Fastly each reach 0.8% (486 and 461), ShortPixel reaches 0.6% (377), Section.io reaches 0.3% (193), and 3 further systems cover 25 companies between them.

61,072

Companies with detected CDN

Of 2,038,354 UK companies

3%

Detection rate

2026

11

Systems detected

In this category

89.5%

Leader share

Cloudflare

UK companies CDN market share

Section.io
Other (3 systems)

Share of the 61,072 UK companies with a detectable system. As of June 2026.

CDN compared

SystemUK companiesShareMedian headcountLondon shareTypical profile
Cloudflare54,65089.5%622.4%Sub-10 firms, 89.5% share
Amazon CloudFront4,8047.9%729.5%Sub-10 firms, 7.9% share
Amazon S34,6807.7%626.4%Sub-10 firms, 7.7% share
Akamai7361.2%526.6%Sub-10 firms, 1.2% share
Bunny4860.8%710.7%Sub-10 firms, 0.8% share
Fastly4610.8%632.8%Sub-10 firms, 0.8% share
ShortPixel3770.6%719.1%Sub-10 firms, 0.6% share
Section.io1930.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
Filestack760.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
Uploadcare720.1%View these companies in Firmbase →
ImageEngine680.1%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

90.1% of band

Under 10 employees is the largest band, with 40,723 companies and Cloudflare at 90.1%. The rest of the category is split across systems with much smaller overall footprints.

10–50 employees

Cloudflare

88.2% of band

10–50 employees contains 17,873 companies, with Cloudflare at 88.2%. Amazon CloudFront and Amazon S3 are the main secondary systems overall, at 7.9% and 7.7% respectively.

Over 50 employees

Cloudflare

88.7% of band

Over 50 employees covers 2,476 companies, and Cloudflare still ranks first at 88.7%. The enterprise-leaning tail remains narrow, with Akamai at 1.2% overall and Fastly at 0.8% overall.

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 companies?
Cloudflare is the most-detected CDN among UK companies, with 89.5% share (54,650 of 61,072 companies with a detectable system), ahead of Amazon CloudFront (7.9%) and Amazon S3 (7.7%).
How many UK companies have a detectable CDN?
61,072 of 2,038,354 actively-trading UK companies (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 system stores and serves website or application assets from distributed servers, reducing the distance between a user and the content being requested. For UK companies, it is typically used to deliver pages, images, scripts, downloads and cached content while taking traffic away from origin infrastructure.
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 companies, Cloudflare or Amazon CloudFront?
Cloudflare: 54,650 detected companies versus 4,804 for Amazon CloudFront, of the 61,072 UK companies with a detectable CDN.
What is the best CDN for UK companies?
This page publishes observed usage rather than recommendations, so “best” is not treated as a product ranking. Cloudflare has the largest footprint overall at 89.5% (54,650 of 61,072 companies with a detectable CDN), followed by Amazon CloudFront at 7.9% (4,804) and Amazon S3 at 7.7% (4,680). Cloudflare also ranks first in each employee band: 90.1% of 40,723 under 10 employees, 88.2% of 17,873 with 10–50 employees, and 88.7% of 2,476 over 50 employees.

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