DDoS-Guard vs HSTS

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

Top sites by authority

DDoS-Guard · HSTS · 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

DDoS-Guard · HSTS · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 5,239

1,467,206

United Kingdom 2,309

450,618

Germany 6,351

441,210

India 1,325

429,462

France 1,844

366,415

Canada 1,254

324,872

Brazil 677

303,175

Italy 1,345

243,977

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, 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.

Sites that switched

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

All DDoS-Guard sites · All HSTS sites