⚡ Security in the United Kingdom

Security solutions for websites are designed to protect against threats like malware, spam, brute-force attacks, and data breaches.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our statistics, security tools are detected on 14.1% of websites from the United Kingdom.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top security tools on websites in the United Kingdom in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Cloudflare Email Obfuscation with an impressive share of 48.2%, followed by Really Simple Security with 37.3% and Jetpack with 13.3%.

Cloudflare Email Obfuscation 48.2%
Really Simple Security 37.3%
Jetpack 13.3%
Wordfence 9.5%
Sansec Watch 0.4%
SiteLock 0.2%
Detectify 0.06%
Link11 0.05%
Suhosin 0.05%
Imunify360 0.02%
BitNinja 0.01%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top tools that are more popular in the United Kingdom than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. Cloudflare Email Obfuscation ^(-1)
5. Sansec Watch ^(-1)
7. Detectify ^(-2)
10. Imunify360 ^(-1)

✨ Best Security Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 11 security tools used on sites from the United Kingdom, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Cloudflare Email Obfuscation San Francisco, California, United States Cloudflare Email Address Obfuscation hides email addresses on web pages from bots by encrypting them. Free$25+/month	48.2%
2	Really Simple Security Groningen, Netherlands A security plugin for WordPress that can generate an SSL certificate, enforce https redirection, scan for possible vulnerabilities, enable 2FA, and implement WordPress hardening. Free$49+/year	37.3%
3	Jetpack San Francisco, California, United States A collection of security, performance, and growth tools that make WordPress sites safer, faster, and increase traffic. Free$19.95+/month	13.3%
4	Wordfence Seattle, Washington, United States A WordPress security plugin that provides a web application firewall and malware scanner to protect websites from hacking attempts, malicious traffic, and vulnerable code. Free$149+/year	9.5%
5	Sansec Watch Utrecht, Netherlands A service that provides automated Content Security Policy monitoring and management specifically for Magento. Free	0.4%
6	SiteLock Scottsdale, Arizona, United States A provider of website security protection and monitoring services. $149+/year	0.2%
7	Detectify Stockholm, Sweden A website vulnerability scanner that performs tests to identify security issues on websites. €82+/month	0.06%
8	Link11 Frankfurt, Germany Offers a cloud-based security platform that includes web application firewall, distributed denial-of-service protection, bot management, and API security. €613+/month	0.05%
9	Suhosin Bonn, Germany An advanced protection system for PHP 5, designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core.	0.05%
10	Imunify360 Estero, Florida, United States A comprehensive security suite for Linux web servers that includes antivirus, firewall, WAF, and more. $12+/month	0.02%
11	BitNinja Debrecen, Hungary A server security suite with a centralized dashboard containing an AI-powered Linux malware scanner, IP reputation, WAF, and spam detection. Free$5+/month	0.01%

👉 See Also

🌎 Security in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 157,370 websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.