The State of Web Vitals

Bot detection impact

Performance impact by bot_detection provider.

Field data PhoneDesktopAll Scope All sites Q2 2026 edition · Phone field outcomes
Metric LCP INP CLS
1

At a glance the headline numbers for Bot detection impact

Performance impact by bot_detection provider.

6
Providers ranked
After min-sites filter
51,242
Sites in sample
Combined across all items
2.0s
Best LCP (p75)
hCaptcha
The State of Web Vitals · Q2 2026 · 189,915 sites · phone field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
2

The ranking sorted by LCP at p75, fastest first

# Provider LCP p75 Passing Sites
1 hCaptcha 2.0s 84.8%
975
2 Cloudflare Turnstile 2.2s 83.0%
386
3 reCAPTCHA 2.5s 75.9%
49,427
4 DataDome 2.7s 69.2%
227
5 Imperva Bot Management 2.8s 68.2%
54
6 Akamai Bot Manager 2.8s 67.3%
173
The State of Web Vitals · Q2 2026 · 189,915 sites · phone field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
3

Passing LCP per provider which group passes the LCP most often

ProviderSitesPassing LCPp75
hCaptcha 0.5% 975 85% 2.0s
Cloudflare Turnstile 0.2% 386 83% 2.2s
reCAPTCHA 26% 49,427 76% 2.5s
DataDome 0.1% 227 69% 2.7s
Imperva Bot Management 0% 54 68% 2.8s
Akamai Bot Manager 0.1% 173 67% 2.8s
PerimeterX/HUMAN 0% 13 55% 4.0s
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

85% of hCaptcha sites pass LCP. Akamai Bot Manager trails 18 points behind, leaving 33% of its sites failing. computed

The State of Web Vitals · Q2 2026 · 189,915 sites · phone field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
4

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%
762.5s
92136ms
870.03
692.0s
521.3s
hCaptcha 0.5%
852.0s
86153ms
910.02
811.6s
69977ms
Cloudflare Turnstile 0.2%
832.2s
79178ms
790.07
761.7s
581.2s
DataDome 0.1%
692.7s
75201ms
830.05
731.9s
561.3s
Akamai Bot Manager 0.1%
672.8s
63241ms
740.12
572.1s
391.2s
Imperva Bot Management 0%
682.8s
79193ms
770.09
572.3s
501.2s
PerimeterX/HUMAN 0%
554.0s
50266ms
820.06
363.6s
362.7s
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.

hCaptcha leads on LCP: 85% of its sites pass. Akamai Bot Manager trails at 67%. computed

The State of Web Vitals · Q2 2026 · 189,915 sites · phone field datacorewebvitals.io/state-of-cwv
Related signals Push notifications (5) → Image CDNs (9) → RUM (13) → Marketing pixels (10) → Chrome field data from 189,915 sites, representing millions of real page loads · How we measured