Bot detection impact WordPress sites
Performance impact by bot_detection provider.
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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
22,176
Sites in sample
Combined across all items
2.9s
Best LCP (p75)
reCAPTCHA
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The ranking sorted by LCP at p75, fastest first
| # | Provider | LCP p75 | Passing | Sites | |
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| 1 | reCAPTCHA | 2.9s | 62.8% | 21,773 | |
| 2 | Cloudflare Turnstile | 3.1s | 64.3% | 123 | |
| 3 | hCaptcha | 3.2s | 61.3% | 280 |
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Passing LCP per provider which group passes the LCP most often
ProviderSitesPassing LCPp75
DataDome 0.1% 35 2.4s
Cloudflare Turnstile 0.2% 123 3.1s
reCAPTCHA 34.4% 21,773 2.9s
hCaptcha 0.4% 280 3.2s
Good Needs Improvement Poor Sorted best-passing first · median colored by its own rating · pass = good LCP (2.5s at p75) · one value per site
No provider stands out: pass rates sit between 61% and 64%. computed
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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 34.4%
632.9s
96125ms
890.02
522.5s
282.0s
hCaptcha 0.4%
613.2s
91148ms
900.02
522.7s
272.2s
Cloudflare Turnstile 0.2%
643.1s
95136ms
890.02
472.6s
252.2s
DataDome 0.1%
782.4s
100141ms
1000.00
562.0s
311.9s
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.
Cloudflare Turnstile leads on LCP: 64% of its sites pass. hCaptcha trails at 61%. computed
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Related signals Push notifications (5) → Image CDNs (9) → RUM (14) → Marketing pixels (10) → 203,892 crawled sites with Chrome field data, representing millions of real page loads · How we measured
203,892 crawled sites with Chrome field data, representing millions of real page loads. How we measured.