⚡ 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 43.7% of websites from the United Kingdom.

Statistics based on 184K+ 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 72.9% share.
It is followed by Amazon CloudFront with 15.4% and 20iCDN with 7.5%.

Cloudflare 72.9%
Amazon CloudFront 15.4%
20iCDN 7.5%
Fastly 5.5%
Google Cloud CDN 2.4%
Akamai 2%
Hostinger CDN 1.9%
Azure CDN 1.8%
Bunny CDN 1.7%
Azure Front Door 1.1%
WPMU CDN 1.1%
Imperva 0.7%
Imgix 0.7%
Cloudinary 0.7%
Sucuri 0.7%

🚀 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)
5. Google Cloud CDN ^(-1)
11. WPMU CDN ^(-2)
13. Imgix ^(-3)
16. KeyCDN ^(-2)
18. ImageKit ^(-1)
19. QUIC.cloud ^(-1)
20. Optimole ^(-1)
22. Rackspace CDN ^(-4)
23. PressCDN ^(-1)

✨ 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 DDoS protection, backed by more than 405 Tbps of network capacity. Free$25+/month	72.9%
2	Amazon CloudFront Seattle, Washington, United States A highly scalable content delivery network service operated by Amazon Web Services. Free tier$$$	15.4%
3	20iCDN Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom A content distribution network service included for free with every hosting plan from the UK web hosting company 20i. $$$	7.5%
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$$$	5.5%
5	Google Cloud CDN Mountain View, California, United States A content delivery network service within Google Cloud that accelerates websites and web applications through Google's globally distributed edge infrastructure. $$$	2.4%
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. $$$	2%
7	Hostinger CDN Vilnius, Lithuania A built-in, free content delivery network feature available directly through Hostinger hPanel for eligible web and cloud hosting plans. $$$	1.9%
8	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$$$	1.8%
9	Bunny CDN Ljubljana, Slovenia A global content delivery network with over 200 Tbps of network capacity. $1+/month	1.7%
10	Azure Front Door Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities. $35+/month	1.1%
11	WPMU CDN Melbourne, Australia A content delivery network for WordPress sites with 123 Points of Presence and 150 Tbps+ network capacity. $36+/year	1.1%
12	Imperva San Mateo, California, United States The Imperva Content Delivery Network brings content caching, load balancing, and failover so your applications and content are securely delivered across the globe. Free$59+	0.7%
13	Imgix San Francisco, California, United States A real-time image and video processing and delivery platform that combines a URL-based transformation API, AI-powered editing tools, and a global CDN. $25+/month	0.7%
14	Cloudinary Santa Clara, California, United States A cloud-based image and video API platform that provides tools for uploading, managing, transforming, optimizing, and delivering digital media assets. Free$99+/month	0.7%
15	Sucuri Tempe, Arizona, United States A managed website security service provider that also offers a CDN as part of its protection platform. $229+/year	0.7%
16	KeyCDN Ermatingen, Switzerland A content delivery network headquartered in Switzerland. $$$	0.5%
17	ShortPixel Bucharest, Romania A cloud-based image optimization service that reduces image file sizes to speed up websites and improve page load performance. FreeOpen source$9.99+/month	0.5%
18	ImageKit New Delhi, India A media CDN, image and video API, and AI-powered digital asset management platform that optimizes, transforms, and delivers visual content in real time. Free$9+/month	0.1%
19	QUIC.cloud Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States A content delivery network and online service platform for WordPress developed by the team at LiteSpeed Technologies\|litespeed that provides HTTP/3 support, static and dynamic caching, and security features. Free$$$	0.1%
20	Optimole Bucharest, Romania A cloud-based image optimization service that automatically compresses, resizes, and serves images through a CDN and is available as a WordPress plugin. Free$22.90+/month	0.1%
21	Alibaba Cloud CDN Hangzhou, China A globally distributed content delivery network service provided by Alibaba Cloud. $$$	0.1%
22	Rackspace CDN San Antonio, Texas, United States A content delivery network service powered by the Akamai network that accelerates website content and media delivery by caching assets on over 200 edge nodes. $$$	0.09%
23	PressCDN Tempe, Arizona, United States A content delivery available for free with every hosting plan from the managed WordPress hosting provider Pagely. $$$	0.08%
24	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%
25	Filestack Austin, Texas, United States A cloud-based file management platform that offers tools and APIs for file uploading, transformation, and delivery. $69+/month	0.04%

👉 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 184,124 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 39 CDN providers across the web.
Of these, 35 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on October 7, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.