Basic vs Cloudflare Bot Management

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

Top sites by authority

Basic · 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

Basic · Cloudflare Bot Management · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 233

868,567

United Kingdom 116

240,816

India 123

234,982

Canada 141

196,014

Germany 146

171,746

Brazil 78

171,590

France 154

154,165

Japan 202

152,768

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, 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.

Sites that switched

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

All Basic sites · All Cloudflare Bot Management sites