Basic vs DDoS-Guard
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Basic · DDoS-Guard · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 8+
7
39
Open Page Rank 7+
35
192
Open Page Rank 6+
53
395
Open Page Rank 5+
69
707
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Basic · DDoS-Guard · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Russia
37
66,731
Belarus
16
7,159
Kazakhstan
21
5,222
Germany
122
4,212
Netherlands
82
3,556
United States
210
3,232
Uzbekistan
26
2,763
Ukraine
36
2,714
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Basic | DDoS-Guard |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.