19%
Bot protection / WAF
2,237 / 11,909
20%
CAPTCHA
2,374 / 11,909
10%
Served a bot challenge
2,724 / 26,147
64%
CDN
7,648 / 11,909
Security & bot protection All
| # | Technology | United Kingdom | Global | Netherlands | Italy | Spain | Japan | Latin America |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloudflare Bot Management | 15% | 14% | 9.4% | 9.4% | 7.8% | 2.3% | 11% |
| 2 | Akamai Bot Manager | 1.5% | 2.8% | 1.4% | 1.4% | 2.1% | 1.3% | 1.4% |
| 3 | Imperva (Incapsula) | 0.7% | 0.9% | 0.1% | 0.7% | 1.8% | 1.1% | 1.1% |
| 4 | Wordfence | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.6% | <0.1% | 0.5% |
| 5 | Sucuri WAF | 0.4% | 0.2% | <0.1% | 0.5% | 0.3% | <0.1% | 0.2% |
| 6 | Kasada | 0.3% | 0.2% | 1% | 0.3% | 0.5% | <0.1% | 0.4% |
| 7 | AWS WAF Bot Control | 0.2% | 0.2% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
| 8 | DataDome | <0.1% | 0.2% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
| 9 | HUMAN (PerimeterX) | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
| 10 | F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense (Shape) | 0% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | 0.1% | 0% | 0.2% |
Bot challenges served
- 1 Cloudflare 8.2% 2,133
- 2 Other 403/429 1.4% 365
- 3 AWS WAF 0.4% 110
- 4 CAPTCHA page 0.2% 42
- 5 Imperva 0.1% 39
- 6 DataDome <0.1% 24
- 7 Kasada <0.1% 4
- 8 HUMAN (PerimeterX) <0.1% 3
- 9 Sucuri <0.1% 3
- 10 DDoS-Guard <0.1% 1
Share of 26,147 sites in the sample.
CAPTCHA All
| # | Technology | United Kingdom | Global | Netherlands | Italy | Spain | Japan | Latin America |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Google reCAPTCHA | 19% | 7.3% | 15% | 17% | 17% | 6.8% | 15% |
| 2 | hCaptcha | 8.4% | 1.7% | 4% | 4.7% | 3.8% | 2.9% | 4.8% |
| 3 | Cloudflare Turnstile | 1.3% | 1% | 1.2% | 1.3% | 1.1% | 0.9% | 1.1% |
| 4 | Friendly Captcha | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | <0.1% | 0.2% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
By market
| Metric | United Kingdom | Global | Netherlands | Italy | Spain | Japan | Latin America |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bot protection / WAF | 19% | 18% | 12% | 13% | 13% | 4.9% | 15% |
| CAPTCHA | 20% | 8.6% | 16% | 18% | 19% | 7.7% | 17% |
| Served a bot challenge | 10% | 13% | 5.1% | 12% | 11% | 9.3% | 13% |
| CDN | 64% | 58% | 47% | 50% | 49% | 47% | 59% |
| robots.txt blocks everything | 53% | 3.7% | 49% | 1.9% | 2.3% | 3.2% | 2.7% |
| Blocks an AI crawler | 6% | 10% | 6.4% | 11% | 11% | 3.9% | 7% |
Our crawler: 11,909 sites · United Kingdom · updated 23 Oct 2026 · Methodology
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