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68,769 sitesGlobal

Bot protection & WAF usage worldwide

WAFs, bot managers and challenge pages on popular websites.

18%
Bot protection / WAF
12,460 / 68,769
8.6%
CAPTCHA
5,947 / 68,769
13%
Served a bot challenge
11,193 / 85,917
58%
CDN
40,170 / 68,769

Security & bot protection All

#TechnologyGlobalUnited KingdomNetherlandsItalySpainJapanLatin America
1Cloudflare Bot Management 14%15%9.4%9.4%7.8%2.3%11%
2Akamai Bot Manager 2.8%1.5%1.4%1.4%2.1%1.3%1.4%
3Imperva (Incapsula) 0.9%0.7%0.1%0.7%1.8%1.1%1.1%
4AWS WAF Bot Control 0.2%0.2%<0.1%<0.1%<0.1%<0.1%<0.1%
5Sucuri WAF 0.2%0.4%<0.1%0.5%0.3%<0.1%0.2%
6DataDome 0.2%<0.1%<0.1%<0.1%<0.1%<0.1%<0.1%
7Wordfence 0.2%0.6%0.4%0.5%0.6%<0.1%0.5%
8Kasada 0.2%0.3%1%0.3%0.5%<0.1%0.4%
9F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense (Shape) <0.1%0%<0.1%<0.1%0.1%0%0.2%
10HUMAN (PerimeterX) <0.1%<0.1%<0.1%<0.1%<0.1%<0.1%<0.1%

Bot challenges served

  1. 1 Cloudflare 8.2% 7,050
  2. 2 Other 403/429 3.1% 2,632
  3. 3 AWS WAF 0.5% 455
  4. 4 CAPTCHA page 0.4% 340
  5. 5 DataDome 0.4% 306
  6. 6 Imperva 0.2% 193
  7. 7 HUMAN (PerimeterX) 0.2% 139
  8. 8 DDoS-Guard <0.1% 56
  9. 9 Kasada <0.1% 15
  10. 10 Sucuri <0.1% 5

Share of 85,917 sites in the sample.

CAPTCHA All

#TechnologyGlobalUnited KingdomNetherlandsItalySpainJapanLatin America
1Google reCAPTCHA 7.3%19%15%17%17%6.8%15%
2hCaptcha 1.7%8.4%4%4.7%3.8%2.9%4.8%
3Cloudflare Turnstile 1%1.3%1.2%1.3%1.1%0.9%1.1%
4Friendly Captcha 0.1%0.1%0.1%<0.1%0.2%<0.1%<0.1%

By market

MetricGlobalUnited KingdomNetherlandsItalySpainJapanLatin America
Bot protection / WAF 18%19%12%13%13%4.9%15%
CAPTCHA 8.6%20%16%18%19%7.7%17%
Served a bot challenge 13%10%5.1%12%11%9.3%13%
CDN 58%64%47%50%49%47%59%
robots.txt blocks everything 3.7%53%49%1.9%2.3%3.2%2.7%
Blocks an AI crawler 10%6%6.4%11%11%3.9%7%

Our crawler: 68,769 sites · Global · updated Oct 23, 2026 · Methodology

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