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
1
Open Page Rank 8+
255
48
Open Page Rank 7+
846
197
Open Page Rank 6+
1,374
407
Open Page Rank 5+
1,945
735
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
1,230
73,946
United States
15,223
5,239
Germany
4,373
6,351
Belarus
521
8,363
United Kingdom
5,674
2,309
Netherlands
3,010
4,400
Kazakhstan
617
6,077
Canada
4,910
1,254
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 | 2.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.