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Every number here is named for what it counts. How each one is measured is on the methodology page.
Fig. 1Cloudflare's share of Hacker News and Lobsters stories, by month
Cloudflare%
Distinct stories naming the tool, as a percentage of all stories naming any tracked tool. Complete months only.
Fig. 2npm downloads a week: wrangler
wrangler
Each week's median of the daily snapshots, so one glitched snapshot cannot move the line. Complete weeks only.
Job ads naming it, by week
Postings in Adzuna's UK IT feed and on RemoteOK whose title or description names Cloudflare. Small counts: read the direction, not the rate.
- 10 Aug 2
- 17 Aug 2
- 24 Aug 1
- 31 Aug 0
- 7 Sept 0
- 14 Sept 0
- 21 Sept 1
- 28 Sept 1
- 5 Oct 3
- 12 Oct 1
- 19 Oct 2
- 26 Oct 0
Biggest stories, last 90 days
- Cloudflare acquires Deno1.4K pts · 719 comments · 9 Oct
- Cloudflare Quick Tunnels829 pts · 316 comments · 18 Sept
- Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers659 pts · 202 comments · 16 Aug
- Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work658 pts · 325 comments · 5 Aug
- Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare385 pts · 382 comments · 8 Sept
- Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier323 pts · 153 comments · 10 Oct
- Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams286 pts · 112 comments · 1 Oct
- Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic after strike on Yandex datacenter273 pts · 105 comments · 11 Oct
Bets on Cloudflare
- Open · resolves 2026-10-31
Cloudflare's weekly npm downloads will exceed 30M by October 31, 2026.
- Open · resolves 2026-11-30
Cloudflare's monthly conversation share will remain below 2.5% through November 2026.