⚡ Content Delivery Networks in the United Kingdom

Content delivery networks (CDNs), also known as content distribution networks, are networks of geographically distributed servers that speed up the delivery of web content by caching and serving assets from locations closer to users.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our research, content delivery networks are used on 39.5% of websites from the United Kingdom.

Statistics based on 159K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top CDN providers in the United Kingdom in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Cloudflare, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 73.3% share.
It is followed by Amazon CloudFront with 14.5% and 20iCDN with 7.8%.

Cloudflare 73.3%
Amazon CloudFront 14.5%
20iCDN 7.8%
Fastly 5.7%
Google Cloud CDN 2.5%
Akamai 2.1%
Azure CDN 1.9%
Bunny CDN 1.4%
WPMU CDN 1.1%
Azure Front Door 1%
Imperva 0.9%
Cloudinary 0.7%
Imgix 0.7%
Sucuri 0.7%
ShortPixel 0.6%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top CDN providers that are more popular in the United Kingdom than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

3. 20iCDN ^(-11)
9. WPMU CDN ^(-4)
10. Azure Front Door ^(-1)
13. Imgix ^(-2)
15. ShortPixel ^(-1)
16. Optimole ^(-1)
17. QUIC.cloud ^(-2)
20. Cloudimage ^(-4)
22. Filestack ^(-4)
23. Rackspace CDN ^(-6)

✨ Best CDN Providers

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 35 CDN providers used on sites from the United Kingdom, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Cloudflare San Francisco, California, United States A global content delivery network designed for enterprise-grade speed and built-in DDoS protection. Free$25+/month	73.3%
2	Amazon CloudFront Seattle, Washington, United States A highly scalable content delivery network service operated by Amazon Web Services. Free tier$$$	14.5%
3	20iCDN Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom A content distribution network service included for free with every hosting plan from the UK web hosting company 20i. $$$	7.8%
4	Fastly San Francisco, California, United States A global content delivery network provider that delivers cached and dynamic web content via edge servers deployed around the world. Free$$$	5.7%
5	Google Cloud CDN Mountain View, California, United States Accelerates web applications using Google's global edge network. $$$	2.5%
6	Akamai Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A global content delivery network provider that serves web content, streaming media, and applications through edge infrastructure in more than 130 countries. $$$	2.1%
7	Azure CDN Redmond, Washington, United States A global solution for delivering high-bandwidth content by caching it at strategically placed physical nodes across the world. Free$$$	1.9%
8	Bunny CDN Ljubljana, Slovenia A global content delivery network with over 200 Tbps of network capacity. $1+/month	1.4%
9	WPMU CDN Melbourne, Australia A content delivery network for WordPress sites with 123 Points of Presence and 150 Tbps+ network capacity. $36+/year	1.1%
10	Azure Front Door Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities. $35+/month	1%
11	Imperva San Mateo, California, United States Content Delivery Network brings content caching, load balancing, and failover so your applications and content are securely delivered across the globe. Free$59+	0.9%
12	Cloudinary Santa Clara, California, United States A cloud-based image and video API platform that provides tools for uploading, managing, transforming, optimizing, and delivering digital media assets. Free$99+/month	0.7%
13	Imgix San Francisco, California, United States A service that combines real-time image processing, asset management, and CDN. $25+/month	0.7%
14	Sucuri Tempe, Arizona, United States A managed website security service provider that also offers a CDN as part of its protection platform. $229+/year	0.7%
15	ShortPixel Bucharest, Romania An image optimization service with WebP and AVIF support and CDN delivery. FreeOpen source$9.99+/month	0.6%
16	Optimole Bucharest, Romania A service that optimizes and serves images for websites. Free$22.99+/month	0.2%
17	QUIC.cloud Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States A CDN for WordPress with HTTP/3 and QUIC support. Free$$$	0.2%
18	Alibaba Cloud CDN Hangzhou, China A globally distributed content delivery network service provided by Alibaba Cloud. $$$	0.1%
19	ImageKit New Delhi, India A media CDN that optimizes and transforms images and videos. Free$89+/month	0.1%
20	Cloudimage Lyon, France A media optimization service that converts images to the optimal format, adjusts the size-quality ratio, and delivers them via its own CDN. Free$32+/month	0.08%
21	PressCDN Tempe, Arizona, United States A content delivery available for free with every hosting plan from the managed WordPress hosting provider Pagely. $$$	0.08%
22	Filestack Austin, Texas, United States A cloud-based file management platform that offers tools and APIs for file uploading, transformation, and delivery. $69+/month	0.06%
23	Rackspace CDN San Antonio, Texas, United States A global Content Delivery Network from Rackspace Technology.	0.05%
24	CDNetworks Singapore The APAC-leading network with more than 200,000 global servers. Free$$$	0.04%
25	CDN77 London, United Kingdom A content delivery network that specializes in video delivery and has 150 Points of Presence across 6 continents. $990+/month	0.03%

👉 See Also

🌎 CDN in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 159,335 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 38 CDN providers across the web.
Of these, 35 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on April 24, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.