⚡ Content Delivery Networks in South Africa

A CDN, a content delivery network, or content distribution network, is a network of geographically distributed servers that speed up the delivery of web content.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our research, content delivery networks are used on 20.6% of websites from South Africa.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Cloudflare, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 72.4% share.
It is followed by Amazon CloudFront with 16.8% and Fastly with 9.2%.

Cloudflare 72.4%
Amazon CloudFront 16.8%
Fastly 9.2%
Google Cloud CDN 4.2%
WPMU CDN 2.5%
Azure CDN 2.1%
Akamai 1.6%
Bunny CDN 1.3%
20iCDN 1.1%
Azure Front Door 1%
ShortPixel 0.9%
Imperva 0.8%
Sucuri 0.6%
Imgix 0.5%
Cloudinary 0.4%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. Google Cloud CDN ^(-1)
5. WPMU CDN ^(-8)
9. 20iCDN ^(-5)
10. Azure Front Door ^(-2)
11. ShortPixel ^(-4)
14. Imgix ^(-2)
16. Optimole ^(-1)
17. QUIC.cloud ^(-2)
23. CacheFly ^(-5)
24. Gumlet ^(-3)

✨ Best CDN Providers

Below is a more detailed list of 24 CDN providers used on sites from South Africa, 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	72.4%
2	Amazon CloudFront Seattle, Washington, United States A highly scalable content delivery network service operated by Amazon Web Services. Free tier$$$	16.8%
3	Fastly San Francisco, California, United States A global content delivery network provider that delivers cached and dynamic web content via edge servers deployed around the world. Free$$$	9.2%
4	Google Cloud CDN Mountain View, California, United States Accelerates web applications using Google's global edge network. $$$	4.2%
5	WPMU CDN Melbourne, Australia A content delivery network for WordPress sites with 123 Points of Presence and 150 Tbps+ network capacity. $36+/year	2.5%
6	Azure CDN Redmond, Washington, United States A global solution for delivering high-bandwidth content by caching it at strategically placed physical nodes across the world. Free$$$	2.1%
7	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. $$$	1.6%
8	Bunny CDN Ljubljana, Slovenia A global content delivery network with over 200 Tbps of network capacity. $1+/month	1.3%
9	20iCDN Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom A content distribution network service included for free with every hosting plan from the UK web hosting company 20i. $$$	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	ShortPixel Bucharest, Romania An image optimization service with WebP and AVIF support and CDN delivery. FreeOpen source$9.99+/month	0.9%
12	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+	0.8%
13	Sucuri Tempe, Arizona, United States A managed website security service provider that also offers a CDN as part of its protection platform. $229+/year	0.6%
14	Imgix San Francisco, California, United States A service that combines real-time image processing, asset management, and CDN. Free$75+/month	0.5%
15	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	0.4%
16	Optimole Bucharest, Romania A service that optimizes and serves images for websites. Free$22.99+/month	0.4%
17	QUIC.cloud Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States A CDN for WordPress with HTTP/3 and QUIC support. Free$$$	0.3%
18	Alibaba Cloud CDN Hangzhou, China A globally distributed content delivery network service provided by Alibaba Cloud. $$$	0.1%
19	ImageKit New Delhi, India A media CDN that optimizes and transforms images and videos. Free$89+/month	0.08%
20	CDNetworks Singapore The APAC-leading network with more than 200,000 global servers. Free$$$	0.05%
21	PressCDN Tempe, Arizona, United States A content delivery available for free with every hosting plan from the managed WordPress hosting provider Pagely. $$$	0.05%
22	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%
23	CacheFly Elk Grove Village, Illinois, United States An American content delivery network provider with over 70 points of presence across North America, Europe, Asia, South America, Australia, and Africa. Free$$$	0.03%
24	Gumlet Singapore A cloud-based video and image optimization and delivery service. Free$19+/month	0.03%

👉 See Also

🌎 CDN in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 17,795 websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.