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Cloudflare Bot Management

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Cloudflare Bot Management is a comprehensive solution that identifies and mitigates automated traffic to protect websites from malicious bots. It uses machine learning and behavioral analysis to differentiate between human users, good bots, and bad bots, helping to maintain site performance and security.

Cloudflare Bot Management belongs toSecuritycategory.

381websites

use it — 14.9% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#3of 28

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 115)

163public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

13.98% of all websites we track run Cloudflare Bot Management▼ 0.01 points since 20 Sep

At a glance

UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,555 websites · refreshed weekly

How Cloudflare Bot Management sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details

50PerformanceLowaverage site: 5089AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8996Best practicesGoodaverage site: 9392SEOGoodaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about as fast as the average site

Cloudflare Bot Management sites
4.2 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most Cloudflare Bot Management sites load in 3.1–6.7 s. Home page weight: 3.4 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 147 public sites measured.

Where are they hosted?

Mostly Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services

  • Cloudflare64%
  • Amazon Web Services15%
  • Fastly1%
  • Google Cloud1%
  • Other18%
Canada 47%United States 35%Brazil 2%

Who uses it?

Technology and Software is the biggest group

Technology and Software49%
Business Services14%
Software as a Service (SaaS)7%
Other4%

Share of 163 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

Browser-security check

32% of graded sites pass

18of 57 score B or better

Rates each site’s own security settings, not Cloudflare Bot Management. 57 public sites graded so far.

How Cloudflare Bot Management sites are built

Closest partners. The number says how many times more often the tool runs on Cloudflare Bot Management sites than on an average website. Hover a partner for its share of sites.

HubSpot CMS Hub6×AngularJS5×Cloudflare Turnstile4×Cloudflare Browser Insights3×HubSpot Analytics2×

Stacks we see most. Tools that tend to run together with Cloudflare Bot Management on the same websites. The percentage is the share of all 381 Cloudflare Bot Management sites that run the whole stack.

10 stacks · swipe, drag or use the arrows
#1

Cloudflare Bot Management + OneTrust + Sentry

5.2%20 of 381 sites
#2

Cloudflare Bot Management + HubSpot CMS Hub + HubSpot Cookie Policy Banner

3.7%14 of 381 sites
#3

Cloudflare Bot Management + Sentry + Wistia

3.7%14 of 381 sites
#4

Cloudflare Bot Management + OneTrust + Google Sign-in

2.6%10 of 381 sites
#5

Cloudflare Bot Management + OneTrust + Contentful

2.6%10 of 381 sites
#6

Cloudflare Bot Management + HubSpot CMS Hub + Unpkg

2.4%9 of 381 sites
#7

Cloudflare Bot Management + Sentry + styled-components

2.4%9 of 381 sites
#8

Cloudflare Bot Management + OneTrust + HubSpot CMS Hub

2.1%8 of 381 sites
#9

Cloudflare Bot Management + Sentry + Google Cloud

2.1%8 of 381 sites
#10

Cloudflare Bot Management + Google Sign-in + Apple Sign-in

2.1%8 of 381 sites

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 381 Cloudflare Bot Management sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Google Tag Manager60%Google Analytics49%Cloudflare Browser Insights23%Facebook Pixel17%OneTrust27%HubSpot19%Microsoft Advertising17%DoubleClick Floodlight11%Linkedin Ads9%Yoast SEO9%
Tag managerAnalyticsCookie consentMarketingAdvertisingSearch visibility

Similar tools in its category

Security: 115 tools known, 28 seen in our scans

HSTS1,637 sitesAlternativereCAPTCHA509 sitesAlternativeAkamai Bot Manager152 sitesAlternativeImperva46 sitesAlternativehCaptcha16 sitesAlternativeDataDome15 sitesAlternativeDataGrail8 sitesAlternativeReally Simple SSL & Security6 sitesAlternativeClickCease22 sitesUsed togetherPerimeterX18 sitesUsed togetherSift10 sitesUsed together

How websites combine Cloudflare Bot Management with other tools

Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.

Built on a platform 110Complements another tool 38Needs another tool 21Integrates with another 11Overlaps with another 8

Websites using Cloudflare Bot Management

381 websites use Cloudflare Bot Management: 14.9% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months. A selection is shown below.

Scores are out of 100: P Performance · A Accessibility · B Best practices · S SEO. Green 80+, yellow 65–79, orange 50–64, red below 50. The dot shows whether our last scan found the site failing (red) or not (green); Red, amber or blue: an active incident on the site's status page (outage, degraded, maintenance) or a failing scan; amber also means a certificate ending within 30 days. Hover the dot for details.

Questions about Cloudflare Bot Management

How many websites use Cloudflare Bot Management?
We found Cloudflare Bot Management on 381 of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (14.9%). 163 of them have a public status page.
What is Cloudflare Bot Management often used with?
Among the websites we scan, Cloudflare Bot Management is often found alongside OneTrust (27% of its sites), Cloudflare Browser Insights (22.8% of its sites), HubSpot (18.6% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to Cloudflare Bot Management?
Other security tools we recognize include HSTS, reCAPTCHA, Akamai Bot Manager, Imperva.

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