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 8+
6
41
Open Page Rank 7+
13
192
Open Page Rank 6+
15
397
Open Page Rank 5+
20
716
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
17
65,971
Belarus
7
7,183
Kazakhstan
13
5,117
Germany
35
4,815
Netherlands
35
3,808
United States
68
3,558
Uzbekistan
14
2,830
Ukraine
15
2,749
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | AWS WAF Captcha | DDoS-Guard |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 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.