Akamai Web Application Protector vs HSTS

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Akamai Web Application Protector · HSTS · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

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 · HSTS · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 703

1,467,206

United Kingdom 414

450,618

Germany 380

441,210

India 485

429,462

France 381

366,415

Canada 441

324,872

Brazil 374

303,175

Italy 344

243,977

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Akamai Web Application Protector sites · All HSTS sites