🆚 NetScaler vs. Wordfence

Type

Load balancer
Website security tool

About

NetScaler is an application delivery and security platform that provides load balancing, application acceleration, and application protection for web applications and APIs.

It runs a single code base across hardware appliances, virtual machines, containers, and bare-metal Linux, applies web application firewall and bot protection in a single pass, and provides layer 4 through 7 load balancing, content switching, zero trust network access, single sign-on, and integrations with Splunk, Prometheus, and Elasticsearch.

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

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ❌Free trial
Citrix NetScaler ADC VPX/BLX
5 Gbps $11,000+/year
10 Gbps $13,000+/year
25 Gbps $34,000+/year
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 #15
WAF › Rank #9
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 17 times more popular than NetScaler.
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 NetScaler is more popular in Turkey, Kuwait, and Mauritius.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Germany
Spain
Italy
France
Canada
Netherlands
Poland

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Wordfence is more popular than NetScaler in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Travel
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Health
Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
nesine.com
#721
#1,384
#1,631
#1,784
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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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