South Africa

Who runs South Africa's top sites

Which companies host, protect and run DNS and email for the sites people in South Africa visit most — from Chrome's top lists and public DNS. Look up any site below.

Top 10,000 sites

Chrome UX Report · September 2026

Hosting providers in South Africa →

Hosting

of 9,829 sites
  1. Amazon Web Services6.3%
  2. xneelo3.8%
  3. Microsoft Azure3.3%
  4. HOSTAFRICA1.8%
  5. Shopify1.8%
  6. Google Cloud1.6%
  7. DigitalOcean1.3%
  8. Hetzner1.2%
Behind a CDN57%
Other22%

CDN & protection

of 9,829 sites
  1. Cloudflare46%
  2. Amazon CloudFront6.3%
  3. Akamai3.6%
  4. Fastly2.2%
  5. Imperva0.5%
  6. Azure Front Door0.5%
  7. CDN770.3%
  8. ArvanCloud0.2%
No CDN40%

DNS

of 9,918 sites
  1. Cloudflare42%
  2. Amazon Route 5311%
  3. dns-h.com4.9%
  4. Self-hosted4.0%
  5. GoDaddy3.2%
  6. dns1.co.za2.2%
  7. Azure DNS1.7%
  8. Akamai Edge DNS1.6%
Other30%

Email

of 8,013 sites
  1. Google Workspace25%
  2. Microsoft 36520%
  3. Self-hosted17%
  4. Mimecast10%
  5. Proofpoint2.3%
  6. Cloudflare Email Routing2.1%
  7. Zoho Mail1.6%
  8. terdo.ru1.5%
Other21%

Built on

of 9,829 sites
  1. Shopify1.8%
  2. Azure App Service0.4%
  3. WordPress.com0.3%
  4. Vercel0.2%
  5. Wix0.2%
  6. Heroku0.1%
  7. Google Sites & App Engine0.1%
  8. HubSpot0.1%
Other97%

Top 1,000 sites

Chrome UX Report · September 2026

Hosting

of 967 sites
  1. Amazon Web Services5.5%
  2. Microsoft Azure3.9%
  3. About Google2.7%
  4. TENET2.6%
  5. Telasera-Technologies2.2%
  6. Google Cloud2.1%
Behind a CDN57%
Other24%

CDN & protection

of 967 sites
  1. Cloudflare42%
  2. Amazon CloudFront6.9%
  3. Akamai5.6%
  4. Fastly2.5%
  5. CDN770.9%
  6. Azure Front Door0.3%
No CDN41%

DNS

of 990 sites
  1. Cloudflare41%
  2. Amazon Route 5311%
  3. Self-hosted7.3%
  4. GoDaddy4.0%
  5. Azure DNS3.3%
  6. tenet.ac.za2.8%
Other31%

Email

of 830 sites
  1. Google Workspace25%
  2. Microsoft 36523%
  3. Mimecast14%
  4. Self-hosted12%
  5. Proofpoint2.8%
  6. Cloudflare Email Routing2.2%
Other20%

Built on

of 967 sites
  1. Shopify1.3%
  2. Azure App Service0.6%
  3. Wix0.1%
Other98%
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