EDRIX September 2026: Germany Back in First Place, France Falls Five Places, and Europe's Top Websites Keep Moving to US Infrastructure
Germany regains first place in the European Digital Resilience Index (EDRIX). France records the steepest fall of the quarter, from 7th to 12th. Across Europe's high-traffic websites, three moved their hosting, email or DNS to a non-EU provider since June for every one that moved back.
Paris – September 30, 2026 – For immediate release – The European Digital Resilience Index (EDRIX) publishes its September 2026 edition, the second measured with the EDRIX 2.0 methodology. The index scores the 27 EU member states on a fresh scan of more than 24,000 high-traffic domains and of each member state's core official websites (head of state, government, capital city).
Who moved, and why
- Germany returns to first place (2nd → 1st, 7.28 → 7.59), driven by its private-sector pillar (7.85 → 8.95).
- Finland (7.40) and Austria (7.38) are virtually tied behind it. Austria slips from 1st to 3rd with an almost unchanged score and keeps its perfect public-sector score.
- Latvia (11th → 8th) posts the strongest gain in score of the quarter (5.88 → 6.21). Luxembourg (12th → 9th) and Belgium (23rd → 20th) also gain three places.
- France (7th → 12th) records the largest fall. Its score only drops from 6.13 to 5.91, but ranks 6 to 12 are separated by just 0.32 points. The loss comes from the private-sector pillar (9.45 → 8.78).
- Portugal (20th → 24th) sees its public-sector score halve (5.56 → 2.78). Since June, the website of Lisbon's city hall,
www.lisboa.pt, has moved both its web hosting and its DNS from Portuguese infrastructure to a US provider. - Croatia (10th → 13th) loses ground on private-sector resilience (7.20 → 6.70). Since June, 11 of the high-traffic
.hrsites we track moved their web hosting to a non-EU provider, against a single one in the other direction.
Europe's top websites keep drifting towards US providers
For the 12,567 high-traffic domains measured in both June and September, we counted every site that changed servers and, in doing so, crossed the line between an EU and a non-EU provider:
| Moved to a non-EU provider | Moved to an EU provider | |
|---|---|---|
| Web hosting | 192 (126 of them to Cloudflare) | 96 |
| 69 | 17 | |
| DNS | 135 (123 of them to Cloudflare) | 24 |
That makes about three moves towards non-EU providers for every move back. Cloudflare alone accounts for three quarters of the web and DNS departures (249 of 327). The drift is sharpest in Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Estonia.
Dr. Stefane Fermigier, author of the EDRIX, says:
"Two quarterly editions into EDRIX 2.0, Europe keeps losing ground. For every European website that brings its infrastructure home, three move to American providers. In the middle of our ranking, a few hundredths of a point separate countries, so a single decision, such as a capital city moving its website to a US provider, changes a country's rank. Our quarterly measurement puts each of those decisions on the record."
Full ranking
| Rank | Country | EDRIX (Sept. 2026) | Rank in June | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 7.59 | 2 | +1 |
| 2 | Finland | 7.40 | 3 | +1 |
| 3 | Austria | 7.38 | 1 | −2 |
| 4 | Slovenia | 6.60 | 4 | = |
| 5 | Estonia | 6.41 | 5 | = |
| 6 | Hungary | 6.23 | 6 | = |
| 7 | Poland | 6.21 | 8 | +1 |
| 8 | Latvia | 6.21 | 11 | +3 |
| 9 | Luxembourg | 6.11 | 12 | +3 |
| 10 | Czech Republic | 6.05 | 9 | −1 |
| 11 | Sweden | 5.94 | 13 | +2 |
| 12 | France | 5.91 | 7 | −5 |
| 13 | Croatia | 5.80 | 10 | −3 |
| 14 | Netherlands | 5.66 | 14 | = |
| 15 | Cyprus | 5.65 | 15 | = |
| 16 | Slovakia | 5.60 | 17 | +1 |
| 17 | Bulgaria | 5.48 | 16 | −1 |
| 18 | Romania | 5.19 | 18 | = |
| 19 | Denmark | 4.24 | 19 | = |
| 20 | Belgium | 3.80 | 23 | +3 |
| 21 | Lithuania | 3.78 | 21 | = |
| 22 | Spain | 3.77 | 24 | +2 |
| 23 | Ireland | 3.75 | 22 | −1 |
| 24 | Portugal | 3.69 | 20 | −4 |
| 25 | Greece | 3.52 | 25 | = |
| 26 | Italy | 3.00 | 26 | = |
| 27 | Malta | 2.26 | 27 | = |
Every country's trajectory since the first studies of this kind is shown on the interactive timeline at edrix.eu.
About the European Digital Resilience Index (EDRIX)
The EDRIX is a composite index measuring a nation's ability to create, deploy and use technology independently. It is fully automated and refreshed quarterly, with four pillars: developer ecosystem, grassroots adoption, private-sector resilience and public-sector resilience. The two resilience pillars rate where the most-visited domains of each national TLD and each member state's core official websites run their web hosting, email and DNS, classifying every provider by the country of its parent company's headquarters. The index was first published in September 2025 and underwent a major methodological revision in May 2026 (EDRIX 2.0).
The full report, methodology, per-country pages and per-domain detail are available at edrix.eu.
Contact
Stefane Fermigier, author of the EDRIX
email: sf@fermigier.com