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19% of sites10 technologies

Security & bot protection market share in the UK

WAFs and bot managers.

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

By site popularity

Share of measured sites in each Tranco popularity band that use the technology: the top 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000 sites and the whole top million.

#TechnologyTop 10KTop 100KTop 1M
1Cloudflare Bot Management 12%16%15%
2Akamai Bot Manager 9.1%4.7%1.5%
3DataDome 3%0.3%<0.1%
4Imperva (Incapsula) 0%1.4%0.7%
5Wordfence 0%0.2%0.6%
6Sucuri WAF 0%0.3%0.4%
7Kasada 0%0.2%0.3%
8AWS WAF Bot Control 0%0.6%0.2%
9HUMAN (PerimeterX) 0%0.2%<0.1%
Sites measured6693111,909

Popular sites vs local business websites

Popular: sites of United Kingdom from the Tranco top million. Local business: websites of companies with 1–20 locations in the country, taken from a business places directory (platforms, marketplaces and aggregators excluded).

#TechnologyPopular sitesLocal businessDifference, pp
Any Security & bot protection19%19%+0.1
1Cloudflare Bot Management 15%17%+2
2Wordfence 0.6%0.9%+0.3
3Kasada 0.3%0.3%0
4Sucuri WAF 0.4%0.2%−0.2
5Imperva (Incapsula) 0.7%0.1%−0.6
6Akamai Bot Manager 1.5%<0.1%−1.5
7AWS WAF Bot Control 0.2%<0.1%−0.1
8DataDome <0.1%0%−0.1
9HUMAN (PerimeterX) <0.1%0%0
Sites measured11,90921,114

Our crawler: 11,909 sites · United Kingdom · updated 23 Oct 2026 · Methodology