Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

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September 8, 2026
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A content delivery network sits in front of a website. Requests hit the CDN's edge servers first, which serve cached content, terminate TLS, filter traffic, and pass the rest back to the origin. That means the CDN is a shared dependency: if it goes down, every site behind it goes down together, whether or not those sites have anything else in common. I went through CipherCue's tracked European com...
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