Akamai Bot Manager vs DDoS-Guard
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Akamai Bot Manager · DDoS-Guard · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
21
0
Open Page Rank 8+
255
41
Open Page Rank 7+
844
192
Open Page Rank 6+
1,372
397
Open Page Rank 5+
1,930
716
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Akamai Bot Manager · DDoS-Guard · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Russia
1,105
65,971
United States
13,044
3,558
Germany
3,898
4,815
Belarus
435
7,183
United Kingdom
5,046
2,258
Netherlands
2,641
3,808
Kazakhstan
521
5,117
Canada
4,352
837
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Akamai Bot Manager | DDoS-Guard |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 600 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.