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 2,064,141 live websites that use Bot Protection.

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Bot Protection usage statistics

Total sites that use Bot Protection2,064,141 websites
Percentage of website that use category3.31%
Number of technologies in Bot Protection category16
Category leader Akamai Bot Manager
Fastest Growing Technology Akamai Bot Manager
Most Popular in Country United States


Bot Protection usage by Country

United States1,934,462 websites


Russia17,208 websites
Germany13,631 websites
Brazil12,946 websites
Netherlands12,490 websites
GB11,183 websites
Canada8,590 websites
Australia5,204 websites
France3,993 websites

Bot Protection usage by TLD

.com1,446,866 websites
.org123,838 websites
.net65,641 websites
.co.uk36,466 websites
.co21,208 websites
.ca20,516 websites
.com.au19,688 websites
.info18,902 websites
.nl18,886 websites
.xyz15,700 websites

Top Technologies

Leading technologies in the Bot Protection category (out of 16 total).
TechnologyWebsitesMarket ShareRecent changes
Akamai Bot Manager992,768 48.10% +479,010
Cloudflare Bot Management949,081 45.98% -315
Imperva50,992 2.47% -139
Shield Security24,033 1.16% -305
VARITI18,420 0.89% -310
Datadome10,001 0.48% -652
AntiBot Cloud9,598 0.46% -1,262
Advanced Bot Protection3,511 0.17% +42
Human Presence2,409 0.12% +8
MyraCloud1,682 <0.1% +30
Geetest1,564 <0.1% +19
pfSense536 <0.1% +195
Negate534 <0.1% +84
Spam Master Firewall472 <0.1% +321
CaptchaFox85 <0.1% +27
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Top technology switches

Number of websites that recently switched technologies within category

FromToWebsite Count
Imperva Cloudflare Bot Management69
Akamai Bot Manager Cloudflare Bot Management50
Cloudflare Bot Management Akamai Bot Manager41
Shield Security Cloudflare Bot Management6
Cloudflare Bot Management Imperva4
Imperva Akamai Bot Manager3

Websites utilizing Bot Protection

Top websites that use Bot Protection
DomainCountryRankContacts
twitter.com United States7
cloudflare.com United States27
player.vimeo.com United States51
afternic.com United States52
paypal.com United States65
vimeo.com United States67
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