Application Request Routing vs Azure Front Door
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Application Request Routing · Azure Front Door · 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
Application Request Routing · Azure Front Door · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,543
15,125
United Kingdom
1,419
7,899
India
1,697
6,627
Germany
1,320
6,897
Canada
1,110
5,967
Brazil
2,152
4,135
France
1,070
5,195
Netherlands
918
4,341
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Application Request Routing | Azure Front Door |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 800 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Application Request Routing to Azure Front Door
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| legaldataintelligence.org | Nov 2025 |
All Application Request Routing sites · All Azure Front Door sites