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 868,567

1,467,206

United Kingdom 240,816

450,618

India 234,982

429,462

Germany 171,746

441,210

Canada 196,014

324,872

France 154,165

366,415

Brazil 171,590

303,175

Japan 152,768

235,824

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 Cloudflare Bot Management sites · All HSTS sites