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+
9
41
Open Page Rank 7+
38
192
Open Page Rank 6+
55
397
Open Page Rank 5+
72
716
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
36
65,971
Belarus
17
7,183
Kazakhstan
19
5,117
Germany
120
4,815
Netherlands
78
3,808
United States
212
3,558
Uzbekistan
22
2,830
Ukraine
35
2,749
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Basic | DDoS-Guard |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.