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SPF & DMARC adoption statistics on brand websites

SPF, DMARC, MTA-STS and BIMI: how well domains protect their email from spoofing.

93%
SPF record
1,527 / 1,643
88%
DMARC record
1,453 / 1,643
67%
DMARC enforced
1,106 / 1,643
6.3%
MTA-STS
103 / 1,643

DMARC policy

  1. 1 reject 54% 789
  2. 2 none (monitor only) 24% 347
  3. 3 quarantine 22% 317

Share of 1,453 sites in the sample.

SPF «all» qualifier

  1. 1 -all (hard fail) 55% 846
  2. 2 ~all (soft fail) 41% 629
  3. 3 redirect= 2.5% 38
  4. 4 Unknown 0.7% 10
  5. 5 no all 0.3% 4

Share of 1,527 sites in the sample.

By market

MetricUK brandsUnited KingdomGlobal
SPF record 93%47%76%
SPF hard fail (-all) 55%46%44%
DMARC record 88%40%64%
DMARC enforced 67%21%41%
DMARC p=reject 54%27%35%
DMARC reports (rua) 89%71%79%
BIMI logo 11%1.6%5.5%
MTA-STS 6.3%2.8%2.3%
SPF over 10 lookups 0.3%0.1%0.1%

Who sends email (SPF includes)

  1. 1 Microsoft 365 53% 802
  2. 2 Mailchimp / Mandrill 13% 202
  3. 3 Google Workspace 12% 190
  4. 4 Amazon SES 12% 183
  5. 5 Proofpoint 12% 180
  6. 6 Mimecast 11% 173
  7. 7 Zendesk 11% 172
  8. 8 Salesforce 9.5% 145
  9. 9 SendGrid 9.1% 139
  10. 10 Mailgun 4.7% 72
  11. 11 Mailjet 3.3% 50
  12. 12 Campaign Monitor 2.5% 38
  13. 13 HubSpot 2.4% 36
  14. 14 ServiceNow 1.8% 27
  15. 15 Oracle (Eloqua / Responsys) 1.2% 18

Share of 1,527 sites in the sample.

DMARC report processors

  1. 1 Proofpoint 14% 183
  2. 2 Valimail 12% 161
  3. 3 DMARC Analyzer 11% 136
  4. 4 Red Sift OnDMARC 6.6% 85
  5. 5 dmarcian 4.9% 64
  6. 6 Cloudflare 2.9% 38
  7. 7 Agari 2.9% 37
  8. 8 EasyDMARC 2.6% 34
  9. 9 PowerDMARC 1.3% 17
  10. 10 Postmark 1.3% 17

Share of 1,295 sites in the sample.

Our crawler: 1,359 sites · UK brands · updated 23 Oct 2026 · Methodology

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