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1. roguec+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-12-05 19:23:01
Akamai manages it.
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2. winddu+lq[view] [source] 2025-12-05 21:34:22
>>roguec+(OP)
They don't, akamai has had several outages as well jsut no one notices. Akamai is way way smaller than cloudflare, 20% of internet traffic passes through CF networks, not sure it's even measurable on Akamai.
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3. andrew+xH[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-12-05 23:22:19
>>winddu+lq
Quickly Googling about, a commonly repeated figure is that Akamai served 15% - 30% of Internet traffic in the late 2010's. They probably have less of the market today due to others growing, but they're not a minnow.

2024 revenue figures were $1.669 billion for Cloudflare, and $3.99 billion for Akamai, per Wikipedia.

replies(1): >>winddu+8V
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4. winddu+8V[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-12-06 01:18:42
>>andrew+xH
https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/proxy, they are tiny compared to CF, their revenue is high because they focus on large enterprise clients.
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5. z00z1+I22[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-12-06 15:09:45
>>winddu+8V
> 20% of internet traffic passes through CF networks

That does not sound right to me. “20 percent of websites” does not mean “20 percent of traffic.”.

There is no public write-up from Cloudflare that proves “we handle 20% of all Internet traffic.” Cloudflare reports around 295,000 paying customers and more than 30 million Internet properties (20% of the web). So most of their users are on the free plan.

replies(1): >>winddu+Md2
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6. winddu+Md2[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-12-06 16:33:54
>>z00z1+I22
agreed, cloudflare says 20% of all websties, which makes sense, digging into it the "20% of all web traffic" seems to have been like a game of telephone in media, social media, and/or AI.

I can't believe they only have 295,000 paying customer, that puts me in a small minority. lol

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