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63.9% of the 36 Reference & wikisites 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ancestry.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| britannica.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| cambridge.org | Protected | Cloudflare |
| collinsdictionary.com | Protected |
| Cloudflare |
| deepl.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| dictionary.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| encyclopedia.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| etymonline.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| familysearch.org | Protected | Imperva (Incapsula) |
| fandom.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| findagrave.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| geni.com | Protected | Imperva (Incapsula) |
| goodreads.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| infoplease.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| investopedia.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| librarything.com | Protected | Cloudflare + 1 more |
| linguee.com | Open | — |
| merriam-webster.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| myheritage.com | Protected | Imperva (Incapsula) |
| openlibrary.org | Open | — |
| reference.com | Open | — |
| thesaurus.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| tvtropes.org | Protected | Cloudflare |
| urbandictionary.com | Open | — |
| vocabulary.com | Protected | Cloudflare |
| wikibooks.org | Open | — |
| wikidata.org | Open | — |
| wikihow.com | Open | — |
| wikimedia.org | Open | — |
| wikipedia.org | Open | — |
| wikiquote.org | Open | — |
| wikisource.org | Open | — |
| wikitravel.org | Protected | Cloudflare |
| wiktionary.org | Open | — |
| wordreference.com | Open | — |
| worldcat.org | Protected | Cloudflare |
Compare with the rest of the full Anti-Bot Adoption Index (of 1005 reachable top sites, 57.2% are protected).