DNS Statistics 2026: Benchmarks, Trends and 22 Countries
What's a normal NXDOMAIN rate or cache hit ratio? Q3 2026 DNS statistics from 1.1.1.1 by month and country, plus who hosts DNS: Cloudflare 15.4%.
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Operating System Market Share Q3 2026: Android 36%, Windows 33%, iOS 19%
OS market share Q3 2026: Android 35.8%, Windows 33.3%, iOS 19.3% of human web traffic, and why September's Windows lead isn't users switching.
Emma Davies
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Google vs Microsoft Market Share Q3 2026: Which Is Bigger?
Google sent 89% of search referrals and Chrome carried 71% of web requests in Q3 2026. Microsoft 365 leads Google Workspace by 158,098 domains.
Emma Davies
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Statistics: Market Share & Competition Report 2026
AWS grew 37% in Q2 2026. Its share is 28% of cloud spend, 37.7% of IaaS and 55.3% of hyperscaler traffic in Q3 2026, down from 60.8% a year earlier.
Emma Davies
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Google Cloud Statistics: Market Share & Competition Report 2026
Google Cloud revenue hit $24.8B in Q2 2026, up 82%. But only 19% of enterprises run significant workloads on it. Full market share and competition data.
Emma Davies
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I Analyzed 9 Web Analytics Tools - Ranked by Our Usage Data
I analyzed detection data across millions of domains to rank 9 web analytics tools for 2026. Most Google Analytics alternatives don't actually replace it.
Elif Arslan
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AI Crawler List Q3 2026: 67 Bots, What They Want, How to Block
An AI crawler list of all 67 user-agent strings in Cloudflare's directory as of October 2026: what each bot wants and the robots.txt line that controls it.
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TikTok Statistics Q3 2026: Users, Downloads, Revenue & Trends
TikTok statistics Q3 2026: 189M monthly users in the EU (up from 178M), 200M+ in the US, 7.53B downloads, and 402,515 business sites running its pixel.
Elif Arslan
HubSpot Statistics 2026: Trends, Insights and HubSpot Market Share
We analyzed 121,300 HubSpot domains and 99,700 companies to reveal HubSpot's market share, migration trends, and company adoption data for 2026.
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Firefox Market Share Q3 2026: 3.7% vs Chrome's 68.6%, 7.4% Desktop
Firefox fell to 3.65% of human web traffic in Q3 2026, down 0.20 points in a year, as its desktop share slid to 7.4%. How it compares with Chrome.
Emma Davies
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HTTPS Usage Statistics Q3 2026: 98.9% of Human Traffic Is Encrypted
Q3 2026: 98.9% of human web requests were HTTPS, against 88.3% of bot requests and 95.1% overall (Cloudflare Radar). Why the share of websites is lower.
Emma Davies
Webflow to Next.js Migration: The Complete 2026 Guide (Why, How, Costs & Services)
How to migrate from Webflow to Next.js in 2026: why teams switch, a step-by-step process, real cost ranges, and how to choose a migration partner.
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AI Crawler Statistics Q3 2026: What AI Crawlers Actually Want
Q3 2026 Cloudflare Radar data: training was 47.6% of AI crawling, search crawling more than doubled to 8.3%, and Cloudflare relabelled the series again.
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What Percentage of Internet Traffic Is Bots? Q3 2026 Statistics
Bots made up 35.5% of web requests in Q3 2026 and 36.2% in September (provisional), 6.8 points more than a year earlier. Who runs them, who blocks them.
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Mobile vs Desktop in the UK: We Filtered Out the Bots (Q3 2026)
UK humans were 53.6% mobile in Q3 2026 per Cloudflare Radar, while bots pushed all-traffic desktop to 57.4%. Why the two measures disagree.
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Certificate Authority Market Share Q3 2026: Top SSL CAs Ranked
Let's Encrypt logged 9.23 billion certificate records in Q3 2026 and 80.4% of final certificates. The top five CAs ranked by record count, with caveats.
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Chrome Market Share Q3 2026: 68.6% Overall, 69% Mobile, 68% Desktop
Chrome took 68.6% of human web traffic in Q3 2026, up 1.25 points in a year, all of it on phones. Across 2026 it stayed flat while Edge gained.
Emma Davies
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Technology Detection Methods: How We Scan 50M+ Domains
Technology detection explained: we match 6,675 technologies across 14 signal types on a 50M-domain database, re-crawled monthly and scored 0–100.
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Instagram User Statistics Q3 2026: 3B Monthly, 2B Daily Users
How many people use Instagram? 3 billion monthly, and Meta said in July 2026 it hit 2 billion daily actives. Plus Q3 2026 web ranks in 10 countries.
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Data Center Market Statistics Q3 2026: $171B Capex in One Quarter
Big Tech spent $171.2B on capex in Q2 2026 (+79% YoY), Nvidia sold $89B of data center chips in a quarter, and data centres used 485 TWh in 2025.
Emma Davies
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Safari Market Share Q3 2026: 17.8% Overall, 26.5% Mobile, 6.8% Desktop
Safari held 17.8% of human web traffic in Q3 2026, down 1.5 points in a year, almost all on phones. Why September's uptick isn't a real recovery.
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AI in Marketing Statistics Q3 2026: Adoption, ROI and Trust
AI in marketing, Q3 2026: 86.4% of marketing teams use AI (HubSpot), CMOs give it 15.3% of budgets (Gartner), and AI search crawling doubled.
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Influencer Marketing Statistics Q3 2026: 40+ Key Data Points
How big is influencer marketing? $32.55B in 2025 (Influencer Marketing Hub), up to $40.5B forecast for 2026. 40+ sourced stats, Q3 2026 edition.
Elif Arslan
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Social Media Advertising Statistics Q3 2026: 35 Stats + Pixel Data
Social ad spend hit $276B-$306B in 2025, and Meta's Q2 2026 ad revenue rose 27%. 35 stats, plus Facebook Pixel on 3.6M sites (Sept 2026 crawl).
Emma Davies
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Europe E-Commerce Statistics Q3 2026: Germany, France & Italy
Q3 2026: Germany is the EU's largest e-commerce market, Italy's human web traffic is 55% mobile, and shopping sites draw 31% of AI-bot requests.
Emma Davies
Open-Source AI Adoption 2026: 5.6M Projects vs Real Deployment
Stanford counts 5.6M open-source AI projects. We scanned 50M+ domains for what's deployed: Botpress leads at 1,558 vs 52,682 for the closed OpenAI API.
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AI Market Size Q3 2026: How Much Is the AI Industry Worth?
How much is AI worth in 2026? $64B (Gartner, models) to $347B (Statista revenue) and $2.67T (Gartner, all spending). 26 charts, Q3 2026 sources.
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Claude Statistics Q3 2026: #2 in Generative AI for 252 Days
Cloudflare Radar, Q3 2026: Claude held #2 in generative AI for 252 straight days. Anthropic now crawls 988 pages per referral, Perplexity 1,083.
Emre Elbeyoglu
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Turkey E-commerce Statistics Q3 2026: The 4.57 Trillion TL Year
Turkey's e-commerce hit 4.57T TL in 2025 (ETBİS). Q3 2026 Cloudflare Radar: Trendyol #2 in global Fast Fashion and 61% of human traffic on mobile.
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Gen Z UK Social Media Statistics Q3 2026: TikTok, SHEIN & AI
Gen Z UK social media statistics Q3 2026: 67% use social media daily, 94% of secondary-age kids own a phone, and bots now make 25.8% of UK web requests.
Elif Arslan
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Technology Trends 2026: We Checked 39 Forecasts Against What Is Actually Deployed (September 2026 Update)
We checked 39 tech forecasts (Gartner, IDC, IEA) against our own detection data. OpenAI is live on 185,201 domains as of the August 2026 crawl, against 9.9 million running WordPress. See the gap.
Emma Davies
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Mobile Internet Usage by Country: Device Share Statistics Q3 2026
Q3 2026: 54.4% of human web requests came from phones, but bots pushed all-traffic desktop to 60.4%. Bangladesh and Indonesia lead mobile use.
Emma Davies
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Most Reliable Internet by Country Q3 2026: Who Has the Best Internet?
Q3 2026: Singapore completed 92.6% of TCP connections cleanly, the most reliable. Hungary, Spain and Chile led speed tests. Reliable is not fast.
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Search Engine Market Share Q3 2026: Google Sends 9 in 10 Referrals
Google sent 89.04% of search referrals in Q3 2026 and 90.51% in September (Cloudflare Radar). How that differs from StatCounter and where AI referrers win.
Mehmet Suleyman
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DNSSEC Adoption Q3 2026: Only 0.57% of DNS Queries Are Protected
Cloudflare Radar, Q3 2026: 9.90% of DNS queries reached DNSSEC-signed domains, but only 0.57% were validated end to end. Resolver support fell again.
Emma Davies
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Ecommerce Marketplace Market Share Q3 2026: Top Marketplaces Ranked
Q3 2026 Cloudflare Radar ranks: Amazon, Shopee and Shein held #1 for 14 months; Trendyol held Fast Fashion #2 all September; eBay contested #2.
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Marketing Technology Statistics Q3 2026: 30 MarTech Trends
MarTech in Q3 2026: 15,505 tools (growth flat at 0.8%), budgets at 7.8% of revenue with 15.3% on AI, and the platforms leading on live websites.
Elif Arslan
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ChatGPT Statistics Q3 2026: 1.2 Billion Weekly Users
ChatGPT reached 1.2B weekly users (OpenAI, 29 Sep 2026). Q3 2026 Radar data: GPTBot fell to 8.05% of AI-bot traffic as OpenAI's search crawler doubled.
Emma Davies
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Web Traffic Statistics Q3 2026: The 15 Numbers That Matter
Q3 2026 Cloudflare Radar data: bots were 35.5% of web requests, all-traffic desktop 60.4% and HTTP/3 20.2%. 15 numbers vs Q2 2026 and Q3 2025.
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DMARC Adoption Statistics Q3 2026: 89% Pass, About 1 in 6 Fail SPF
Cloudflare Radar, Q3 2026: DMARC pass held at 89.3%, SPF failed on 15.8% of messages, and routed email fell to 76.8% encrypted as IPv6 mail grew.
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HTTP Protocol Adoption Q3 2026: HTTP/3 Is Shrinking, HTTP/1.x Isn't
HTTP/3 carried 20.2% of web requests in Q3 2026, down 2.8 points in a year, while HTTP/1.x rose to 27.4%. Cloudflare Radar data through September.
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Internet Outage Tracker Q3 2026: 49 Disruptions in Three Months
Q3 2026 internet outages: Cloudflare Radar logged 49, with 23 in September alone. Iraq exam shutdowns made 18, power failures 14. September is provisional.
Emma Davies
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AI Adoption Trends Q3 2026: 4 Layers of Cloudflare Radar Data
Cloudflare Radar, Q3 2026: search crawling doubled to 8.3% of AI-bot requests, training eased to 47.6% and Anthropic held #3. September is provisional.
Emma Davies
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robots.txt AI Crawler Report Q3 2026: Who Gets Blocked
Q3 2026 robots.txt data from Cloudflare Radar: training bots are still blocked more than answer bots, but Allow rules naming GPTBot tripled in a year.
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How Much of the Internet Runs on AWS? Cloud Traffic Share Q3 2026
AWS's main network carried 2.73% of global bytes in Q3 2026, and AWS took 55% of hyperscaler requests. Cloud provider market share by traffic in 2026.
Emma Davies
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Most Popular Platforms & Technologies by Category: Q3 2026
Cloudflare Radar DNS rankings, Q3 2026: 14 of 16 category leaders held every date we sampled since July 2025. Music and Video Streaming flipped on 24 Sep.
Emma Davies
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Salesforce Statistics & Market Share Q3 2026: Who Uses It
Salesforce held 20.0% of CRM in 2025 (IDC) as Q2 FY27 revenue rose 11% to $11.3B. We detect it on 75,978 websites; finance over-indexes 3.8x.
Sophie Clarke
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SSL Certificate Statistics Q3 2026: ECDSA Now Matches RSA, 50/50
ECDSA rose from 27.7% to 50.1% of SSL certificate records between Q3 2025 and Q3 2026 (Cloudflare Radar). Inside Let's Encrypt it hit 52.3% in September.
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Google Analytics 4 Migration: Why Millions of Sites Still Haven't Switched in 2026
We scanned 29.9M active domains in March 2026: GA4 sits at 3.69M sites while 6M still carry dead UA tags. See the migration flows and best alternatives.
Elif Arslan
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2026 Marketing Automation Report: Market Share & Trends Based on 29.9M Active Domains
Our crawlers analyzed 29.9M active domains to reveal 2026's marketing automation landscape. 17 platforms profiled: HighLevel's explosive growth, Klaviyo's e-commerce dominance, Constant Contact's dramatic decline & the agentic AI shift.
Mehmet Suleyman
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Companies Using n8n Q3 2026: Who Uses It and How to Find Them
Who uses n8n? 1,400+ enterprises and 1.7M monthly builders (May 2026), and Q3 2026 npm installs rose 30% on Q2. How to find companies using n8n.
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BuiltWith Alternatives in 2026: 5 Tools, Verified Pricing
BuiltWith now starts at $295/mo, not $199. I compared 5 alternatives on pricing verified in August 2026, real G2 review sentiment, and detection depth.
Mehmet Suleyman
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Shopify Analytics: Trends, Insights and Shopify Market Share 2026
We crawled 2.4M live Shopify stores and enriched 80,970 with company data. See real market share, platform migration, and the tech stack merchants run.
Mehmet Suleyman
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The Technology Lookup Software Industry: 2025–2026 Statistics & Insights (from my know-how)
The latest 2025–2026 insights, statistics, and trends in the technology lookup software industry from BuiltWith and Wappalyzer to SimilarTech and Technologychecker.io. Includes March 2026 web technology market share data, detection methods deep-dive, and how technographics drive smarter B2B sales, marketing, and growth strategies.
Mehmet Suleyman
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Why 73% of SaaS Companies Switch CRMs Within 3 Years (And What That Means for Sales Teams)
73% of SaaS companies abandon their CRM within 3 years, costing $2.5-5M in lost revenue per switch. Explore CRM failure rates, adoption data, and strategies to break the switching cycle.
Sophie Clarke
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Shopify Migration Data 2026: 31,946 Stores In, 10,271 Out
Our crawl tracked every store that switched between Shopify and 7 rival platforms. Shopify wins migration roughly 3:1 — here's exactly who moves and where.
Mehmet Suleyman