Akamai Web Application Protector vs DDoS-Guard
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Akamai Web Application Protector · DDoS-Guard · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
1
Open Page Rank 8+
30
48
Open Page Rank 7+
76
197
Open Page Rank 6+
112
407
Open Page Rank 5+
145
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 Web Application Protector · DDoS-Guard · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Russia
206
73,946
Belarus
94
8,363
Germany
380
6,351
Kazakhstan
106
6,077
United States
703
5,239
Netherlands
351
4,400
Uzbekistan
122
3,504
Ukraine
193
3,307
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Akamai Web Application Protector | DDoS-Guard |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 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.
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