Posts tagged "market-share"

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March 30, 2026 17 min read

Who's Visiting the Web? A User-Agent Analysis of 1.3 Million Requests — and Why Only a Quarter Are Human

We classified 1.32 million HTTP requests across 14,828 unique user agents. Human browsers are down to 24.8% of traffic. The category mix has inverted since first publication: HTTP libraries (curl, Go, Python) and crawlers now tie for the lead at roughly a third each, while desktop browsers fell to 21.9% and AI crawlers — though still growing in volume — saw their share roughly halve to 7.3%. Full breakdown by category, browser, OS, and crawler operator, triangulated against Imperva and Cloudflare.

February 24, 2026 16 min read

Mail Provider Market Share: Google and Microsoft Route 54% of the World's Email

We mapped the MX records of 1,051,461 domains with an identified mail provider across LLMSE's index. Google Workspace (28.4%) and Microsoft 365 (26.0%) still form a duopoly, but it has loosened to 54.4% as the crawl broadened. IONOS is now the third-largest provider, bundled hosting email has grown to a quarter of all domains, and ProtonMail has overtaken Fastmail as the privacy leader.

February 24, 2026 15 min read

Who Runs the Web's Address Book: Cloudflare Leads DNS at 28%, Not 40% — and the Market Is Fragmenting

We mapped the DNS provider for 1.66 million domains by their delegated nameservers. Cloudflare leads at 28.3% — still 3.2x the next provider (GoDaddy, 8.9%), but well below the 40% we reported in early 2026. As LLMSE's index more than doubled, DNS de-concentrated across every tier: the top two providers now hold 37% (was 51%), the top ten 58% (was 73%). DNS remains markedly more fragmented than business email, and the long tail is overwhelmingly European and Asia-Pacific hosting and registrar brands.