Cloudflare Bot Management vs HSTS

HSTS is the more common of the two in our index: it runs on 28,937 websites against 12,242 for Cloudflare Bot Management, and 7,258 sites use both. Counts come from real scans, not vendor claims.

Cloudflare Bot Management: 12,242
HSTS: 28,937

Cloudflare Bot Management

Cloudflare bot management solution identifies and mitigates automated traffic to protect websites from bad bots.

Indexed sites: 12,242
Share of Security: 31%

Well-known sites using it

All 12,242 sites

HSTS

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) informs browsers that the site should only be accessed using HTTPS.

Indexed sites: 28,937
Share of Security: 73%

Well-known sites using it

All 28,937 sites

Used together

7,258 sites run both Cloudflare Bot Management and HSTS. That is 59% of the sites using Cloudflare Bot Management, the smaller of the two.

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