🆚 Azure Application Gateway vs. Wordfence

Type

Load balancer
Website security tool

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.

Wordfence is a WordPress security plugin that provides a web application firewall and malware scanner to protect websites from hacking attempts, malicious traffic, and vulnerable code.

It features an endpoint firewall integrated directly with WordPress, malware detection for over 44,000 known variants, file integrity checks against the WordPress repository, brute force login protection with two-factor authentication, real-time traffic monitoring, and IP and country blocking.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

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 ✔️ 30-day delay on firewall rules and malware signatures
Premium
(real-time signatures)
$149/year
Care
(hands-on support)
$490/year
Response
(1-hour response time)
$1250/year

Categories

Load Balancers › Rank #10
WAF › Rank #6
WAF › Rank #1
Security › Rank #4
WordPress Plugins › Rank #28

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Wordfence security tool is 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.

Wordfence is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Azure Application Gateway is more popular in Norway, the Philippines, and the United Arab Emirates.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Germany
Spain
France
Netherlands
Italy
Canada
Japan

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Wordfence is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while Azure Application Gateway is more commonly used on finance and banking, and government and military sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Health
Travel
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#184
attheraces.com
#1,715
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Name
Rank
pragmaticplay.com
#6,582
#6,849
#9,500
#10,174
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See also

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