AWS WAF Captcha vs DDoS-Guard
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
AWS WAF Captcha · DDoS-Guard · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
2
1
Open Page Rank 8+
8
48
Open Page Rank 7+
15
197
Open Page Rank 6+
19
407
Open Page Rank 5+
23
735
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
AWS WAF Captcha · DDoS-Guard · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Russia
24
73,946
Belarus
8
8,363
Germany
35
6,351
Kazakhstan
13
6,077
United States
66
5,239
Netherlands
45
4,400
Uzbekistan
15
3,504
Ukraine
20
3,307
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | AWS WAF Captcha | DDoS-Guard |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 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.