DDoS-Guard vs NTLM
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
DDoS-Guard · NTLM · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 8+
41
0
Open Page Rank 7+
192
0
Open Page Rank 6+
397
0
Open Page Rank 5+
716
0
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 · NTLM · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Russia
65,971
0
Belarus
7,183
0
Kazakhstan
5,117
0
Germany
4,815
0
Netherlands
3,808
0
United States
3,558
0
Uzbekistan
2,830
0
Ukraine
2,749
0
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | DDoS-Guard | NTLM |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.18 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 750 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.