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
0.09
Best CLS (p75)
Cloudflare Turnstile
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · WordPress sites (63,295) · desktop field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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The ranking sorted by CLS at p75, fastest first
| # | Provider | CLS p75 | Passing | Sites | |
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| 1 | Cloudflare Turnstile | 0.09 | 81.6% | 123 | |
| 2 | reCAPTCHA | 0.10 | 76.2% | 21,773 | |
| 3 | hCaptcha | 0.11 | 73.9% | 280 |
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · WordPress sites (63,295) · desktop field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
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Passing CLS per provider which group passes the CLS most often
ProviderSitesPassing CLSp75
DataDome 0.1% 35 0.07
Cloudflare Turnstile 0.2% 123 0.09
reCAPTCHA 34.4% 21,773 0.10
hCaptcha 0.4% 280 0.11
Good Needs Improvement Poor Sorted best-passing first · median colored by its own rating · pass = good CLS (0.1 at p75) · one value per site
82% of Cloudflare Turnstile sites pass CLS. HCaptcha trails 8 points behind, leaving 26% of its sites failing. computed
The State of Web Vitals · October 2026 · WordPress sites (63,295) · desktop 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 34.4%
722.6s
10063ms
760.10
632.2s
311.8s
hCaptcha 0.4%
792.4s
10063ms
740.11
711.9s
301.6s
Cloudflare Turnstile 0.2%
742.7s
10073ms
820.09
552.1s
172.0s
DataDome 0.1%
862.0s
10062ms
860.07
861.6s
601.3s
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 CLS: 82% of its sites pass. hCaptcha trails at 74%. 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.