Cloudflare Bot Management vs Friendly Captcha

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

Top sites by authority

Cloudflare Bot Management · Friendly Captcha · 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

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

United States 791,088

331

United Kingdom 216,363

263

India 213,650

229

Brazil 177,454

102

Canada 174,702

148

Germany 157,114

1,607

Japan 136,510

82

France 131,729

416

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, Aug 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 Cloudflare Bot Management sites · All Friendly Captcha sites