Bot Protection

Parent Category: Security Solutions

Bot Protection systems prevent access to web applications and API by automated processes, such as bots. Bot detection involves various fingerprinting and behavioural techniques to identify whether the client is a human user or a bot.


We have discovered 736,427 live websites that use Bot Protection.

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Bot Protection usage statistics

Total sites that use Bot Protection736,427 websites
Percentage of website that use category0.90%
Number of technologies in Bot Protection category11
Category leader Cloudflare Bot Management
Fastest Growing Technology Cloudflare Bot Management
Most Popular in Country United States



Top Technologies

Top 6 technologies in Bot Protection category (out of 11 total).
TechnologyWebsitesMarket ShareRecent changes
Cloudflare Bot Management528,420 71.75% +154,752
Imperva73,268 9.95% -758
Akamai Bot Manager47,839 6.50% +2,988
Shield Security26,472 3.59% -316
VARITI24,070 3.27% -658
AntiBot Cloud15,528 2.11% -1,190
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Top technology switches

Number of websites that switched technologies within category in the past 3 months

FromToWebsite Count
Imperva Cloudflare Bot Management32
Akamai Bot Manager Cloudflare Bot Management27
Shield Security Cloudflare Bot Management7
Cloudflare Bot Management Akamai Bot Manager5
Cloudflare Bot Management Imperva4
Imperva Akamai Bot Manager4

Bot Protection usage distribution by website rank

The correlation between utilization of Bot Protection technologies and the relative popularity of websites

Geographical Distribution

Category usage distribution by websites across the globe.



Websites utilizing Bot Protection

Top websites that use Bot Protection
DomainCountryRankContacts
cloudflare.com United States27
www.cloudflare.com United States27
player.vimeo.com United States51
www.afternic.com Netherlands52
vimeo.com United States67
nytimes.com United States77
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