🆚 FortiWeb vs. Wordfence
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About
FortiWeb is a web application firewall that protects web applications and APIs from known and unknown exploits and zero-day threats.
It provides multi-layered protection against OWASP Top 10 attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting, machine learning-based API discovery supporting
OpenAPI, XML, and
JSON schemas, bot mitigation without CAPTCHAs, client-side protection for third-party script injections and form hijacking, and link cloaking to prevent scraping.
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.
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Pricing
(real-time signatures) $149/year
(hands-on support) $490/year
(1-hour response time) $1250/year
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Spain in the Bot Mitigation category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Spain in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the WAF category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the WAF category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
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 3,827,731 websites. However, data for FortiWeb is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.





