2026-09-20 · crawler ran 43 times today
65% of reachable sites on today's HN front page serve traffic through a CDN or platform.
69 stories seen · 65 hosts checked
Provider share
Each story counts once, whether it stayed for a few minutes or all day.
Who answers first
The connection ends at a CDN, a platform, or the site's own server. Companies can build or rent the edge; both count here.
- Own server33%
- Cloudflare CDN22%
- Fastly CDN17%
- AWS CloudFront CDN7%
- Vercel platform6%
- Google Cloud4%
- Cloudflare Pages platform≥3%
- GitHub platform3%
- WordPress.com managed1%
- Ghost(Pro) managed1%
Share over time
- Cloudflare
- Own server
- Fastly
- Vercel
- GitHub
- AWS CloudFront
- Netlify
- Other
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| Day | Cloudflare | Own server | Fastly | Vercel | GitHub | AWS CloudFront | Netlify | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 30% | 16% | 15% | 5% | 9% | 4% | 5% | 16% |
| 2026-08-05 | 31% | 17% | 22% | 7% | 5% | 5% | 2% | 10% |
| 2026-08-06 | 26% | 18% | 15% | 9% | 7% | 10% | 4% | 11% |
| 2026-08-07 | 26% | 23% | 18% | 5% | 6% | 8% | 4% | 10% |
| 2026-08-08 | 27% | 22% | 20% | 3% | 11% | 5% | 4% | 7% |
| 2026-08-09 | 30% | 18% | 18% | 3% | 8% | 4% | 4% | 15% |
| 2026-08-10 | 35% | 24% | 13% | 6% | 6% | 6% | 2% | 8% |
| 2026-08-11 | 33% | 15% | 18% | 10% | 6% | 7% | 5% | 8% |
| 2026-08-12 | 32% | 14% | 17% | 11% | 4% | 7% | 2% | 13% |
| 2026-08-13 | 29% | 20% | 18% | 13% | 5% | 3% | 3% | 10% |
| 2026-08-14 | 26% | 19% | 23% | 8% | 8% | 4% | 5% | 8% |
| 2026-08-15 | 30% | 24% | 22% | 4% | 6% | 4% | 2% | 7% |
| 2026-08-16 | 26% | 18% | 21% | 5% | 7% | 8% | 2% | 13% |
| 2026-08-17 | 30% | 19% | 19% | 7% | 4% | 8% | 4% | 9% |
| 2026-08-18 | 27% | 22% | 15% | 11% | 7% | 4% | 1% | 13% |
| 2026-08-19 | 27% | 23% | 16% | 7% | 11% | 3% | 2% | 11% |
| 2026-08-20 | 30% | 16% | 14% | 9% | 6% | 6% | 3% | 14% |
| 2026-08-21 | 25% | 23% | 17% | 8% | 9% | 3% | 2% | 13% |
| 2026-08-22 | 22% | 20% | 22% | 11% | 5% | 6% | 4% | 10% |
| 2026-08-23 | 29% | 20% | 22% | 8% | 3% | 7% | 2% | 9% |
| 2026-08-24 | 31% | 23% | 22% | 5% | 8% | 4% | 1% | 8% |
| 2026-08-25 | 31% | 24% | 17% | 4% | 10% | 3% | 2% | 7% |
| 2026-08-26 | 26% | 21% | 17% | 6% | 8% | 8% | 2% | 12% |
| 2026-08-27 | 30% | 18% | 16% | 9% | 12% | 3% | 1% | 11% |
| 2026-08-28 | 30% | 22% | 15% | 6% | 9% | 7% | 3% | 9% |
| 2026-08-29 | 23% | 33% | 18% | 3% | 7% | 9% | 1% | 7% |
| 2026-08-30 | 31% | 24% | 14% | 3% | 9% | 6% | 3% | 11% |
| 2026-08-31 | 32% | 21% | 20% | 5% | 6% | 4% | 3% | 9% |
| 2026-09-01 | 28% | 19% | 18% | 9% | 6% | 3% | 3% | 14% |
| 2026-09-02 | 32% | 23% | 17% | 7% | 5% | 3% | 2% | 10% |
| 2026-09-03 | 34% | 19% | 20% | 6% | 4% | 6% | 5% | 7% |
| 2026-09-04 | 28% | 22% | 18% | 6% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 13% |
| 2026-09-05 | 23% | 27% | 15% | 8% | 5% | 4% | 4% | 15% |
| 2026-09-06 | 26% | 24% | 17% | 4% | 8% | 4% | 3% | 13% |
| 2026-09-07 | 28% | 23% | 19% | 7% | 9% | 2% | 2% | 11% |
| 2026-09-08 | 29% | 19% | 23% | 4% | 5% | 2% | 3% | 14% |
| 2026-09-09 | 32% | 25% | 18% | 6% | 4% | 5% | 1% | 9% |
| 2026-09-10 | 37% | 18% | 20% | 9% | 3% | 2% | 2% | 9% |
| 2026-09-11 | 32% | 17% | 16% | 9% | 7% | 3% | 4% | 13% |
| 2026-09-12 | 27% | 19% | 21% | 6% | 7% | 7% | 3% | 10% |
| 2026-09-13 | 29% | 23% | 19% | 3% | 7% | 5% | 2% | 12% |
| 2026-09-14 | 25% | 24% | 16% | 8% | 8% | 7% | 2% | 10% |
| 2026-09-15 | 27% | 20% | 17% | 5% | 8% | 7% | 5% | 11% |
| 2026-09-16 | 20% | 20% | 28% | 6% | 7% | 5% | 5% | 11% |
| 2026-09-17 | 22% | 22% | 21% | 7% | 5% | 7% | 4% | 11% |
| 2026-09-18 | 32% | 20% | 19% | 11% | 4% | 4% | 2% | 8% |
| 2026-09-19 | 34% | 14% | 19% | 8% | 6% | 8% | 1% | 9% |
| 2026-09-20 | 22% | 33% | 17% | 6% | 3% | 7% | 0% | 12% |
On the front page today
Recently moved
Hosts that switched providers and stayed put.
- openrouter.aiCloudflare → Vercel(edge, 2026-08-21)
- openrouter.aiVercel → Cloudflare(edge, 2026-08-19)
- www.404media.coGhost(Pro) → Fastly(edge, 2026-08-15)
- www.nature.comGoogle Cloud → Fastly(edge, 2026-08-15)
- www.scientificamerican.comFastly → AWS CloudFront(edge, 2026-08-15)
- www.404media.coFastly → Ghost(Pro)(edge, 2026-08-09)