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 9+
0
1
Open Page Rank 8+
9
48
Open Page Rank 7+
39
197
Open Page Rank 6+
55
407
Open Page Rank 5+
71
735
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
39
73,946
Belarus
19
8,363
Germany
146
6,351
Kazakhstan
21
6,077
United States
233
5,239
Netherlands
99
4,400
Uzbekistan
29
3,504
Ukraine
36
3,307
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Basic | DDoS-Guard |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.