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 3,558

1,348,640

Germany 4,815

403,347

United Kingdom 2,258

403,486

India 1,041

400,388

France 1,427

317,870

Brazil 628

290,538

Canada 837

289,821

Italy 1,080

219,709

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, 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.

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