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 2,888,987 live websites that use Bot Protection.

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Bot Protection usage statistics

Total sites that use Bot Protection2,888,987 websites
Percentage of website that use category4.91%
Number of technologies in Bot Protection category20
Category leader Cloudflare Bot Management
Fastest Growing Technology Cloudflare Bot Management
Most Popular in Country United States

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    Website Distribution by Country

    Number of websites using Bot Protection
    United States2,593,546 websites


    GB35,792 websites
    Germany33,440 websites
    Canada31,570 websites
    Australia22,601 websites
    Brazil19,685 websites
    Russia14,383 websites
    Netherlands11,453 websites
    United Arab Emirates10,876 websites

    Website Distribution by TLD

    Number of websites using Bot Protection
    .com1,988,044 websites
    .org183,997 websites
    .de88,046 websites
    .net80,410 websites
    .co.uk53,088 websites
    .xyz34,092 websites
    .com.au30,501 websites
    .ca30,454 websites
    .co25,063 websites
    .nl23,301 websites

    Top Technologies

    Leading technologies in the Bot Protection category (out of 20 total).
    TechnologyWebsitesMarket ShareRecent changes
    Cloudflare Bot Management1,575,980 54.55% +86,610
    Akamai Bot Manager1,201,808 41.60% +25,827
    Imperva57,717 2.00% -525
    Shield Security19,861 0.69% -12
    VARITI15,011 0.52% -295
    AntiBot Cloud7,072 0.24% -780
    Datadome3,455 0.12% -502
    MyraCloud1,998 less than 0.1% +75
    Geetest1,556 less than 0.1% -70
    Advanced Bot Protection1,288 less than 0.1% +207
    Negate1,113 less than 0.1% +175
    Anubis899 less than 0.1% +149
    Human Presence849 less than 0.1% -68
    pfSense568 less than 0.1% -73
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    Top technology switches

    Number of websites that recently switched technologies within category

    FromToWebsite Count
    Akamai Bot Manager Cloudflare Bot Management99
    Imperva Cloudflare Bot Management69
    Cloudflare Bot Management Akamai Bot Manager62
    Datadome Cloudflare Bot Management23
    Cloudflare Bot Management Imperva11
    Shield Security Cloudflare Bot Management9

    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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