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55.6% of the 36 Developer & techsites we tested run a managed anti-bot or WAF. That is a homepage-level reading — the listing, search, and account pages people actually scrape are usually more protected.
Vendors in this category
| Site | Protected | Anti-bot / WAF |
|---|---|---|
| bitbucket.org | Open | — |
| caniuse.com | Open | — |
| codepen.io | Protected | Cloudflare |
| dev.to |
| Open |
| — |
| docker.com | Open | — |
| elastic.co | Open | — |
| geeksforgeeks.org | Open | — |
| github.com | Open | — |
| githubusercontent.com | Open | — |
| gitlab.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| java.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| jetbrains.com | Open | — |
| js.org | Protected | Cloudflare |
| leetcode.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| mongodb.com | Open | — |
| mozilla.org | Open | — |
| mysql.com | Protected | Akamai (edge) |
| nodejs.org | Protected | Cloudflare |
| npmjs.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| oracle.com | Protected | Akamai (edge) |
| php.net | Open | — |
| postgresql.org | Open | — |
| postman.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| producthunt.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| pypi.org | Open | — |
| python.org | Open | — |
| readthedocs.org | Protected | Cloudflare |
| redis.io | Protected | Cloudflare |
| replit.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| slashdot.org | Protected | Cloudflare |
| sourceforge.net | Protected | Cloudflare |
| stackexchange.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| stackoverflow.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| unpkg.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| w3schools.com | Open | — |
| ycombinator.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
Compare with the rest of the full Anti-Bot Adoption Index (of 1005 reachable top sites, 57.2% are protected).