Companies Using ClickCease

Our October 2026 crawl finds ClickCease on 33,001 live domains, and 20,563 of them match a company record. That makes it the second-largest technology in our Fraud Prevention category and the largest paid click-fraud tool in it. ClickCease has belonged to CHEQ since September 2020 and still sells under its own name; its pricing page describes the traffic it watches as activity "that CHEQ detects or blocks".

Steady growth, mostly from our side

The chart reads 28,035 domains in June, 31,519 in July, 31,677 in August, 32,572 in September and 33,001 in October. Most of the rise is the June to July step, and a step like that comes from our side: the set of domains we crawl turns over every month, with dead sites dropping out and new ones added, and our detection signals widen. From July to October the count grew by 1,482, about 4.7%. Our records first show ClickCease in June 2014, which the chart doesn't cover.

Exits are steady too. 7,160 domains have dropped ClickCease since we began tracking it in March 2026, and very few of them went to a rival. The section on switching below explains why.

"ClickCease grows the way paid search grows: slowly, one small advertiser at a time. The summer step is our crawl reaching more sites, not a rush of new buyers." - Mehmet Suleyman, CEO & Co-founder at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: a base of 33,001 domains with a slow upward line is a mature market. Anyone selling into it wins accounts from inertia, not from a wave of first-time buyers.

Small advertisers with expensive clicks

50.24% of matched companies with a known size have 1 to 10 employees and 32.97% have 11 to 50, so 83.21% have 50 or fewer. Only 11.29% were founded in the 2020s, against 38.69% in the 2010s and 22.71% in the 2000s. Put together, the typical buyer is an established small business, old enough to have a real ad budget and to know what a lost lead costs.

The large end is real but narrow. 192 matched companies have more than 1,000 staff, and they tend to put ClickCease on one marketing site. The University of Arizona runs it on its online campus, the University of Iowa on its admissions site, Georgia Southern on its alumni site, TDK on the site for its SensEI product and Reworld on its investor pages. Universities are the clearest group. Enrolment advertising is paid search with a high value per lead, the same economics as a contractor's.

Sales signal: in a large account, the ClickCease domain points to the team that owns paid acquisition, often admissions or one business unit. Sell to that team, not to central IT.

Construction, law and medicine, mostly in four countries

Construction leads at 9.1% of matched companies. Real estate (4.83%), medical practices (3.95%), consumer services (3.31%), law practice (3.0%) and individual and family services (2.93%) bring the local-services group to 27.12%. These businesses buy local search clicks in auctions where a handful of nearby rivals bid on the same terms, so one competitor clicking your ads is a specific, nameable loss. That is the loss ClickCease sells against, and its own homepage case studies feature a law firm, real estate companies and a healthcare business, the same groups that lead our industry table.

Geography follows the same logic. The United States has 11,717 matched companies, more than the next 14 countries in our table put together, and Canada (1,894), Australia (1,612) and the United Kingdom (1,445) follow. Those four hold 16,668 of the 18,951 companies in the 15 countries shown.

Sales signal: call tracking, landing pages and lead routing sell to the same buyer. A US contractor or law firm running ClickCease has paid traffic, a phone-and-form funnel and a reason to care about lead quality.

Advertisers leave, they rarely switch

Only one switching pair passes our tests, and it's small. Since March 2026, 32 domains dropped Google Ad Traffic Quality and now run ClickCease, and 4 went the other way. Google Ad Traffic Quality is Google's own invalid-traffic script, not something an advertiser buys, so even this row says little about vendor choice.

The paid rivals mostly sit alongside ClickCease. Fraud Blocker still runs beside it on 219 of the 283 domains that ever had both, ClickGUARD on 100 of 115 and Spider AF on 51 of 56. Those aren't switches, and we don't show them as switches. Of the 7,160 domains that dropped ClickCease, at most 49 run any of the click-fraud tools we test for. Leaving ClickCease usually means leaving it with nothing in its place, which fits an advertiser who stopped paid search or decided the protection wasn't paying for itself.

"Fraud Blocker and ClickCease share a site more often than one replaces the other. In this market ClickCease mostly loses to the decision to stop paying for protection at all." - Mehmet Suleyman, CEO & Co-founder at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: for a rival click-fraud vendor, the 219 domains running both tools are the warmest list on this page. They already pay twice for overlapping protection and will compare the two on price.

A stack built around paid search

Across the 32,864 live domains our stack figures cover, DoubleClick Floodlight runs on 49.45% and Microsoft Advertising on 23.05%, with Reddit Ads on 6.03% and Pinterest Ads on 3.15%. Google Analytics reaches 91.67%. A tool that protects ad spend only sells to people spending on ads, and the stack shows it. ClickCease's homepage lists Google Ads first among the platforms it protects, ahead of Meta and Microsoft.

The sites themselves are simple. WordPress runs on 58.61% and Elementor on 20.29%, while WooCommerce (6.87%) and Shopify (6.5%) are small. Most ClickCease advertisers send paid clicks to a quote form or a phone number, not to a checkout.

Sales signal: with WordPress on most of these sites, WordPress agencies and plugin vendors have an easy technical fit. ClickCease itself now sells bot protection for WordPress sites, so expect it in that conversation.

What G2 reviewers say

The G2 sample is small. Effective traffic management is the most cited strength (4 mentions), and the most cited complaint is that the price is a little on the expensive side (3 mentions). Accuracy comes next, with reviewers saying it sometimes flags real visitors. Our data fits the price complaint. ClickCease's list prices run from $99 to $349 a month, and 50.24% of its matched customers have 10 or fewer staff. For a business that size a subscription has to keep saving more than it costs, and some of the 7,160 exits may be that sum not adding up.

Sales signal: lead with cost per protected click, not features. A buyer who complains about price will set your monthly fee against the blocked clicks they can see.

Key takeaways

1. 33,001 live domains, 2nd in Fraud Prevention at 21.86%, owned by CHEQ since 2020.

2. 83.21% of matched companies have 50 or fewer staff, and local services make up 27.12%.

3. The United States alone has 11,717 matched companies.

4. Advertisers rarely switch: at most 49 of the 7,160 domains that dropped ClickCease run a click-fraud tool we test for.

5. Floodlight on 49.45% and Microsoft Advertising on 23.05%: these are active paid-search buyers.

How to use this list

Outreach template: "You run ClickCease on your site, which tells us you buy paid search and watch where your clicks come from. Teams like yours, most with fewer than 50 staff, usually look at [call tracking / landing pages / lead routing] next. Worth 15 minutes?"

Targeting strategy: on TechnologyChecker.io, filter for ClickCease plus construction, real estate, legal or medical practices at 11 to 50 employees in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK. Treat advertising agencies (3.47%) as a separate list, since one agency covers many client sites.

Competitive angle: the 219 domains running ClickCease and Fraud Blocker together are paying twice for one job.

For the full list of 33,001 ClickCease domains and the 20,563 matched companies, explore our dataset at TechnologyChecker.io.