🆚 Azure Front Door vs. Wordfence

Type

Content delivery network
Website security tool

About

Azure Front Door is a content delivery network service from the Microsoft Azure cloud that offers more than 100 edge locations, Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities, and TCP splitting paired with a private global Microsoft backbone network.

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 ❌
Standard $35/month
Premium $330/month
Outbound data transfers (first 10TB) $0.083/GB
10–50 TB $0.066/GB
50–150 TB $0.057/GB
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

CDN › Rank #10
Load Balancers › Rank #9
WAF › Rank #4
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 2.3 times more popular than Azure Front Door.
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 Front Door is more popular in Denmark, Norway, and Hong Kong.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Germany
Spain
Netherlands
Canada
France
Italy
Japan

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Wordfence is more popular among sites focused on marketing and merchandising, blogs and wiki, and education and reference, while Azure Front Door is more commonly used on business, online shopping, and health sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Health
Travel
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#184
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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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