How much of the web runs anti-bot?

85%

Two vendors run the show — Cloudflare and Akamai protect this share of every defended site between them.

67.3%

of top sites need no browser at all — a plain HTTP request or a matched TLS fingerprint reaches them. Even 53.5% of Cloudflare/Akamai sites answer without one: a vendor being present isn’t the same as it actively challenging.

88.6%

Protection tracks money — Crypto is the most defended, while search engines stay open (12.1%): the sites that live by crawling don’t wall off crawlers.

6/10

Real estate is the hardest vertical: when these sites defend, it’s DataDome or PerimeterX, not a Cloudflare toggle — adoption and difficulty are different axes.

9

major publishers now charge crawlers via Cloudflare pay-per-crawl (HTTP 402) — a new wall going up around the open web.