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Cloudflare Turnstile

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Cloudflare Turnstile is a smart CAPTCHA alternative designed to provide a more user-friendly and privacy-focused approach to bot detection. It uses non-interactive challenges and machine learning to validate users without requiring them to solve puzzles or identify objects.

Cloudflare Turnstile belongs toSecuritycategory.

87websites

use it — 3.4% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#4of 28

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

19public pages

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

4.51% of all websites we track run Cloudflare Turnstile▼ 0.03 points since 20 Sep

At a glance

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

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

55PerformanceLowaverage site: 5089AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8996Best practicesGoodaverage site: 9392SEOGoodaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about 13% faster than the average site

Cloudflare Turnstile sites
3.7 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most Cloudflare Turnstile sites load in 2.6–7.2 s. Home page weight: 2.4 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 17 public sites measured.

Who uses it?

Technology and Software is the biggest group

Technology and Software42%
Other16%
Software as a Service (SaaS)16%
Educational Resources11%

Share of 19 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

Browser-security check

27% of graded sites pass

3of 11 score B or better

Rates each site’s own security settings, not Cloudflare Turnstile. 11 public sites graded so far.

How Cloudflare Turnstile sites are built

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

AngularJS24×Webflow4×Cloudflare Bot Management4×Cloudflare2×

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 87 Cloudflare Turnstile sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Google Analytics26%Microsoft Clarity14%Cloudflare Browser Insights12%Google Tag Manager26%Webflow16%HubSpot12%Microsoft Advertising8%DoubleClick Floodlight6%Google Ads5%
AnalyticsTag managerPage builderMarketingAdvertising

Similar tools in its category

Security: 115 tools known, 28 seen in our scans

How websites combine Cloudflare Turnstile with other tools

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

Complements another tool 9Integrates with another 9Built on a platform 8Overlaps with another 2Needs another tool 1

Websites using Cloudflare Turnstile

87 websites use Cloudflare Turnstile: 3.4% 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 Turnstile

How many websites use Cloudflare Turnstile?
We found Cloudflare Turnstile on 87 of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (3.4%). 19 of them have a public status page.
What is Cloudflare Turnstile often used with?
Among the websites we scan, Cloudflare Turnstile is often found alongside Cloudflare (86.2% of its sites), AngularJS (59.8% of its sites), Cloudflare Bot Management (56.3% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to Cloudflare Turnstile?
Other security tools we recognize include HSTS, reCAPTCHA, Akamai Bot Manager, Imperva.

Is your website built with Cloudflare Turnstile?

UptimeCard checks it around the clock, tells you the minute it stops answering, and gives your visitors a status page.