Alternatives to imgix
10 other hosting and CDN tools are on the stores we index. Cloudflare is the most used, on 824 of 1010 stores (82%), then Amazon CloudFront on 54. imgix itself is on 23 (2%).
imgix and its alternatives
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| imgix (this tool) | 2% |
|---|---|
| Cloudflare | 82% |
| Amazon CloudFront | 5% |
| Vercel | 5% |
| Fastly | 4% |
| Shopify Oxygen | 4% |
| Akamai | 3% |
| Cloudinary | 3% |
Every alternative
| Tool | Stores | Also use imgix | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | 824 (82%) | 15 | Compare |
| Amazon CloudFront | 54 (5%) | 6 | Compare |
| Vercel | 51 (5%) | 2 | Compare |
| Fastly | 40 (4%) | 1 | Compare |
| Shopify Oxygen | 40 (4%) | 4 | |
| Akamai | 32 (3%) | 0 | |
| Cloudinary | 27 (3%) | 3 | |
| Netlify | 24 (2%) | 2 | |
| Adobe Dynamic Media (Scene7) | 10 (1%) | 1 | |
| SpeedSize | 6 (1%) | 0 |
Switches
No stores we index have switched between imgix and another hosting and CDN tool yet. We record what each store uses at the end of every month, so switches show here as they happen.
By industry
Where imgix is on at least 5 stores, the most used alternative there.
- Food and drink: imgix on 5 of 91; Cloudflare on 76
- Home and furniture: imgix on 5 of 96; Cloudflare on 73
- Tech accessories: imgix on 5 of 63; Cloudflare on 53
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Of the stores we index, not the whole market, and not a ranking of which tool is better. Found in each store’s public pages, so the real numbers may be higher. How we measure