According to Live Direct Marketing's daily Tranco top-1M scan (July 13, 2026), Pardot (Salesforce) is the SaaS sender for 4,849 domains — 0.79% of 617,702 SPF-publishing domains. Detection method: include: mechanisms in the SPF record.
Pardot is Salesforce's marketing automation and email delivery platform, offering campaign orchestration, lead nurturing, and transactional email services to client organisations. Salesforce operates the platform as a multi-tenant SaaS service, managing authentication and sending infrastructure on behalf of subscriber domains.
Pardot's prevalence in the long tail of smaller and mid-market websites—rather than among the largest enterprises—reflects its positioning as an accessible, managed alternative to in-house email infrastructure. Its concentration in the commercial (.com) sector and frequent co-existence with Microsoft 365 environments suggest adoption by hybrid workplaces and small-to-medium businesses. For email professionals, recognising Pardot's footprint aids when auditing sender authentication, assessing third-party email risk, or investigating domain reputation patterns.
| Tranco rank band | Domains | Share of its base |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1,000 | 18 | 0.4% |
| Top 10,000 | 109 | 2.2% |
| Top 100,000 | 805 | 16.6% |
| Top 1,000,000 | 3,678 | 75.9% |
| Unranked | 239 | 4.9% |
| TLD | Domains | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 3,160 | 65.2% | |
| .org | 412 | 8.5% | |
| .co.jp | 158 | 3.3% | |
| .jp | 107 | 2.2% | |
| .edu | 100 | 2.1% | |
| .net | 92 | 1.9% | |
| .de | 70 | 1.4% | |
| .co.uk | 61 | 1.3% | |
| .com.au | 56 | 1.2% | |
| .fr | 50 | 1.0% |
Cross-tabulated from the same daily snapshot — the other email services seen on the same 4,849 domains.
| Type | Service | Domains | Share of Pardot (Salesforce) users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mailbox | Microsoft 365 | 2,007 | 41.4% |
| Mailbox | Google Workspace | 1,356 | 28.0% |
| Mailbox | Mimecast | 353 | 7.3% |
| Mailbox | Proofpoint | 331 | 6.8% |
| Mailbox | Unknown / Other | 169 | 3.5% |
| Mailbox | Self-Hosted | 148 | 3.1% |
Pardot uses SPF include mechanisms to authorise its sending infrastructure on client domains. As a multi-tenant platform, Pardot shares sending reputation across many organisations, meaning one sender's misconfiguration or poor sending practices can theoretically affect other tenants' deliverability. Domains relying on Pardot must ensure SPF records are correctly configured and that DKIM and DMARC policies are enforced to maintain sender credibility and protect against domain abuse.
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Pardot is Salesforce's email and marketing automation service used primarily by mid-market and smaller organisations for sending campaigns and transactional messages. Including Pardot in SPF records authorises Salesforce's servers to send mail on behalf of those domains.
4,849 domains in the Tranco top-1M use Pardot (Salesforce) as their SaaS sender as of July 13, 2026 (0.79% of SPF-publishing domains), according to Live Direct Marketing's daily DNS scan.
Pardot (Salesforce) accounts for 0.79% of SPF-publishing domains in the top 1M. Whether you should seed a test mailbox there depends on how much of your audience it represents — the co-usage table above shows the services it appears alongside most.
Pardot (Salesforce) is declining — its share moved -0.01 pp over the last 30 days (as of July 13, 2026).
Pardot (Salesforce)'s largest TLD is .com (65.2% of its domains); it appears across 132 TLDs in total.