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At a glance the headline numbers for Bot detection impact
Performance impact by bot_detection provider.
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Providers ranked
After min-sites filter
57,339
Sites in sample
Combined across all items
137ms
Best INP (p75)
reCAPTCHA
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · 212,308 crawled sites · phone field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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The ranking sorted by INP at p75, fastest first
| # | Provider | INP p75 | Passing | Sites | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reCAPTCHA | 137ms | 92.0% | 55,312 | |
| 2 | hCaptcha | 155ms | 85.5% | 1,092 | |
| 3 | Cloudflare Turnstile | 177ms | 79.7% | 416 | |
| 4 | Imperva Bot Management | 189ms | 80.0% | 65 | |
| 5 | DataDome | 198ms | 75.6% | 255 | |
| 6 | Akamai Bot Manager | 242ms | 62.3% | 199 |
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · 212,308 crawled sites · phone field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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Passing INP per provider which group passes the INP most often
ProviderSitesPassing INPp75
reCAPTCHA 26.1% 55,312 137ms
hCaptcha 0.5% 1,092 155ms
Imperva Bot Management 0% 65 189ms
Cloudflare Turnstile 0.2% 416 177ms
DataDome 0.1% 255 198ms
Akamai Bot Manager 0.1% 199 242ms
PerimeterX/HUMAN 0% 15 277ms
Good Needs Improvement Poor Sorted best-passing first · median colored by its own rating · pass = good INP (200ms at p75) · one value per site
92% of reCAPTCHA sites pass INP. Akamai Bot Manager trails 30 points behind, leaving 38% of its sites failing. computed
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · 212,308 crawled sites · phone field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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All five vitals at once the whole category without toggling - cell is the pass rate, small number the p75
LCP
INP
CLS
FCP
TTFB
reCAPTCHA 26.1%
762.5s
92137ms
870.03
702.0s
521.3s
hCaptcha 0.5%
852.0s
86155ms
910.02
801.6s
68998ms
Cloudflare Turnstile 0.2%
822.2s
80177ms
790.07
741.8s
571.2s
DataDome 0.1%
672.8s
76198ms
810.06
701.9s
571.3s
Akamai Bot Manager 0.1%
652.9s
62242ms
710.13
572.1s
411.2s
Imperva Bot Management 0%
692.7s
80189ms
790.09
642.2s
541.1s
PerimeterX/HUMAN 0%
464.0s
50277ms
770.07
393.5s
312.1s
60%95%+ passing Cell: pass rate, small number = p75 · faded rows: under 100 sites
One row per provider, one column per vital - the cell is the share of sites passing, the small number the p75. No toggling needed to see where the category actually differs.
reCAPTCHA leads on INP: 92% of its sites pass. Akamai Bot Manager trails at 62%. computed
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · 212,308 crawled sites · phone field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
Related signals Push notifications (5) → Image CDNs (9) → RUM (14) → Marketing pixels (10) → 212,308 crawled sites with Chrome field data, representing millions of real page loads · How we measured
212,308 crawled sites with Chrome field data, representing millions of real page loads. How we measured.