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
210
818,964
United Kingdom
101
228,783
India
118
217,725
Brazil
70
185,718
Canada
123
182,048
Germany
122
161,903
Japan
185
143,002
France
135
141,695
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Basic | Cloudflare Bot Management |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 ms |
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.
Basic to Cloudflare Bot Management
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| norwichsunblinds.co.uk | Sep 2026 |
| mucosolvan.my | Feb 2026 |
Cloudflare Bot Management to Basic
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| cbse.in | Jul 2026 |
| hankeringforhistory.com | Mar 2026 |
| adraxles.in | Dec 2025 |
| sacaba.gob.bo | Nov 2025 |
| akiba-kaitori.com | Nov 2025 |
| adreixos.com.br | Oct 2025 |