Web Landscape: Top Websites Hosted in the United States (2026)
The US hosts more top-ranked websites than any other country. Here are the biggest sites running on American infrastructure in 2026.
The United States remains the center of gravity for web infrastructure. More than 40% of the Tranco top 1 million domains resolve to US-based IP addresses, spread across data centers in Virginia, Oregon, California, Texas, and dozens of other states.
Why the US Dominates
Three factors keep the US on top: the headquarters of the world's largest cloud providers (AWS in Virginia, Google in Oregon/Iowa, Microsoft in multiple states), the density of internet exchange points, and the sheer number of companies that default to US hosting for latency reasons — most of their users are in North America or Europe, and US east coast data centers serve both well.
The Big Players
The highest-traffic US-hosted domains read like a list of the internet's core infrastructure:
- google.com — Served from Google's own data centers across multiple US states. Rank #1 globally.
- facebook.com — Meta's primary infrastructure runs out of data centers in Oregon, North Carolina, and Iowa.
- youtube.com — Google's video platform, served from the same US infrastructure as google.com.
- amazon.com — Both the retail site and AWS infrastructure are heavily US-based, with Virginia as the primary hub.
- microsoft.com — Microsoft's web properties run on Azure, with major US presence in Virginia, Iowa, and Texas.
Beyond the Giants
The US also hosts the majority of SaaS companies, developer tools, and media sites. GitHub, Netflix, Reddit, Spotify, Slack, Notion, and thousands of others all run primarily on US infrastructure. Even companies headquartered elsewhere often choose US hosting for performance and ecosystem reasons.
The Infrastructure Layer
Behind the consumer-facing sites sits a massive infrastructure layer: Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare, Akamai, and Fastly all have their largest data center footprints in the US.
Browse all US-hosted domains on Statvoo's United States country page.
The Cloud Concentration Problem
A striking pattern in US-hosted domains: a huge percentage resolve to just three companies' IP ranges. AWS (Amazon), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure together host the majority of the top 10,000 websites. This concentration means that an outage at a single cloud provider can take down thousands of sites simultaneously — as happened during the AWS us-east-1 outages in 2021 and 2023.
Check any domain's hosting provider with Statvoo's Headers tool or DNS lookup.
US Hosting by the Numbers
| Provider | Estimated Share of Top 10K | Primary US Regions |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon AWS | ~33% | Virginia (us-east-1), Oregon (us-west-2) |
| Google Cloud | ~18% | Iowa, Oregon, Virginia |
| Cloudflare | ~15% | Anycast (distributed) |
| Microsoft Azure | ~12% | Virginia, Iowa, Texas |
| Akamai | ~8% | Distributed edge network |
| Fastly | ~4% | Distributed edge network |
Emerging Trends
Edge computing is changing the picture. Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, and Deno Deploy run code at edge locations worldwide rather than in centralized US data centers. While the origin servers remain in the US, the actual computation happens closer to users. This blurs the line between "US-hosted" and "globally distributed."
For a full breakdown of any domain's hosting infrastructure, use Statvoo's Full Report.
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