Cloudflare Bot Management vs DDoS-Guard

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Cloudflare Bot Management · DDoS-Guard · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Cloudflare Bot Management · DDoS-Guard · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 818,964

3,232

United Kingdom 228,783

2,377

India 217,725

1,203

Brazil 185,718

619

Canada 182,048

839

Germany 161,903

4,212

Japan 143,002

710

France 141,695

1,785

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Cloudflare Bot Management sites · All DDoS-Guard sites