Akamai Web Application Protector vs Cloudflare Bot Management

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Akamai Web Application Protector · Cloudflare Bot Management · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Akamai Web Application Protector · Cloudflare Bot Management · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 584

791,088

United Kingdom 344

216,363

India 400

213,650

Brazil 302

177,454

Canada 370

174,702

Germany 301

157,114

Japan 279

136,510

France 306

131,729

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Akamai Web Application Protector sites · All Cloudflare Bot Management sites