Readiness check · Enable lane · weight 2
Reachable over IPv6
The host publishes an AAAA (IPv6) DNS record.
- Observed on
- 48%
- Top 1K sites
- 53%
- Top 1M band
- 40%
- Not measured
- 105
of 39,990 measured sites
463 measured
5,556 measured
blocked, challenged or not applicable
Why it matters
A growing share of mobile and home networks prefer IPv6. Publishing an AAAA record avoids extra translation hops for those visitors.
How to fix it
Enable IPv6 at your CDN or host and publish the AAAA record it provides.
How we check
The host publishes an AAAA (IPv6) DNS record.
Observed: IPv6 address published.
Not observed: No IPv6 address published.
Limit: Read from public DNS at the time of the check; records may have changed since.
Stack-specific steps
- Cloudflare: Cloudflare offers IPv6 compatibility for proxied hostnames; check the setting in Network.
By popularity band
| Chrome UX Report band | Observed | Measured |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1K | 53% | 463 |
| Top 5K | 50% | 2,098 |
| Top 10K | 48% | 2,535 |
| Top 50K | 49% | 18,695 |
| Top 100K | 48% | 5,282 |
| Top 500K | 50% | 5,361 |
| Top 1M | 40% | 5,556 |
Categories most likely to do this
Categories least likely
By stack
- Drupal on Cloudflare92%
- Next.js on Cloudflare90%
- WordPress on Cloudflare89%
- Nuxt on Cloudflare88%
- Blogger67%
- Astro62%
- Webflow62%
- Magento / Adobe Commerce59%
- Angular50%
- Drupal50%
- Shopify49%
- WordPress49%
- Next.js on Akamai48%
- Nuxt48%
- Nuxt on Amazon CloudFront47%
- Adobe Experience Manager on Amazon CloudFront45%
- Next.js44%
- Sitecore41%
- Next.js on Amazon CloudFront39%
- Next.js on Google edge39%
- PrestaShop39%
- Adobe Experience Manager38%
- WordPress on Amazon CloudFront34%
- Next.js on Vercel33%
- Next.js on Fastly12%
By provider
- Cloudflare81%
- Akamai Edge DNS47%
- Google Cloud DNS44%
- Gandi DNS39%
- Azure DNS39%
- IONOS DNS36%
- Vercara UltraDNS34%
- NS134%
- DNS Made Easy29%
- Alibaba Cloud DNS28%
- GoDaddy DNS26%
- Amazon Route 5325%
Popular sites where we observed this
Sources and guides
Guide: How to Evaluate Web Hosting PerformanceCheck your own site