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 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 76

818,964

United Kingdom 51

228,783

India 69

217,725

Brazil 30

185,718

Canada 45

182,048

Germany 39

161,903

Japan 35

143,002

France 41

141,695

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, Sep 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 AWS WAF Captcha sites · All Cloudflare Bot Management sites