AWS WAF Captcha vs Cloudflare Bot Management
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
AWS WAF Captcha · Cloudflare Bot Management · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
2
211
Open Page Rank 8+
8
4,192
Open Page Rank 7+
15
20,323
Open Page Rank 6+
19
42,257
Open Page Rank 5+
23
76,964
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
AWS WAF Captcha · Cloudflare Bot Management · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
66
868,567
United Kingdom
39
240,816
India
58
234,982
Canada
41
196,014
Germany
35
171,746
Brazil
34
171,590
France
45
154,165
Japan
37
152,768
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | AWS WAF Captcha | Cloudflare Bot Management |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.
All AWS WAF Captcha sites · All Cloudflare Bot Management sites