Cloudflare Bot Management vs HSTS

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 818,964

1,338,613

United Kingdom 228,783

411,483

India 217,725

404,554

Germany 161,903

400,616

Brazil 185,718

292,843

Canada 182,048

290,713

France 141,695

326,363

Japan 143,002

215,912

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 Cloudflare Bot Management sites · All HSTS sites