🆚 Azure Application Gateway vs. Imperva WAF
- 📈 Imperva WAF is noticeably more popular than Azure Application Gateway.
- 🌎 Imperva WAF is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Spain.
- 🌍 Azure Application Gateway is more popular in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Load balancer
Web application firewall
About
Azure Application Gateway is a managed web traffic load balancer and full reverse proxy that enables scalable, highly available, and secure web application delivery on Azure.
Imperva Cloud WAF protects websites from automated vulnerability scans, Layer 7 DDoS attacks, and malicious bots.
It also provides advanced bot protection using device fingerprinting with over 200 attributes, threat intelligence feeds, managed rules, and attack analytics to block or control suspicious traffic.
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington, United States
San Mateo, California, United States
Pricing
Free version ❌
Application Gateway Basic
Fixed cost $0.0255/hour
Capacity unit $0.0091/hour
Application Gateway Standard
Fixed cost $0.246/hour
Capacity unit $0.008/hour
Free version ❌Free 30-day trial
SecureSphere WAF $7,000+/year
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Imperva WAF technology is 1.4 times more popular than Azure Application Gateway.
Total websites
Market share
WAF
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Imperva WAF is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Spain, while Azure Application Gateway is more popular in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Spain
Australia
Germany
France
Canada
Italy
Netherlands
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the Philippines in the WAF category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Philippines in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Korea in the WAF category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Norway in the WAF category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in New Zealand in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Thailand in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Mexico in the WAF category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the WAF category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in New Zealand in the Bot Mitigation category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Imperva WAF is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and sports, while Azure Application Gateway is more commonly used on software and hardware, non-profit, advocacy and NGO, and public information sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Sports
Finance/Banking
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Health
Government/Military
Travel
Internet Services
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
Imperva WAF

