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+
4
0
Open Page Rank 8+
27
41
Open Page Rank 7+
63
192
Open Page Rank 6+
88
397
Open Page Rank 5+
104
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 Web Application Protector · DDoS-Guard · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Russia
170
65,971
Belarus
68
7,183
Kazakhstan
89
5,117
Germany
301
4,815
United States
584
3,558
Netherlands
272
3,808
Uzbekistan
109
2,830
Ukraine
161
2,749
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Akamai Web Application Protector | DDoS-Guard |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 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.
All Akamai Web Application Protector sites · All DDoS-Guard sites