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 586

867,388

United Kingdom 370

246,487

India 410

226,249

Brazil 332

193,965

Canada 382

189,383

Germany 329

174,258

Japan 299

151,103

France 318

150,456

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, Oct 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