⚡ Web Application Firewalls in Ghana

Web Application Firewalls (WAF) are security solutions that inspect and filter incoming HTTP and HTTPS requests before they reach a web application.

Ghana is a West African country with a population of over 34 million people.

According to our research, web application firewalls are detected on 3.7% of websites from Ghana.

Statistics based on 860 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top WAF technologies in Ghana in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Imperva WAF with a share of 25%, followed by Wordfence with 25% and Sucuri CloudProxy with 18.8%.

Imperva WAF 25%
Wordfence 25%
Sucuri CloudProxy 18.8%
SiteLock 9.4%
Azure Front Door 6.3%
F5 BIG-IP 3.1%
Azure Application Gateway 3.1%
AWS WAF Captcha 3.1%
Ivanti vADC 3.1%
FortiWeb 3.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Imperva WAF ^(-4)
4. SiteLock ^(-6)
8. AWS WAF Captcha ^(-5)

✨ Best WAF Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 10 WAF technologies used on sites from Ghana, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Imperva WAF San Mateo, California, United States Imperva Cloud WAF protects websites from automated vulnerability scans, Layer 7 DDoS attacks, and malicious bots. $7,000+/year	25%
2	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	25%
3	Sucuri CloudProxy Tempe, Arizona, United States A website application firewall that stops bad actors, speeds up load times, and increases website availability.	18.8%
4	SiteLock Scottsdale, Arizona, United States A cloud-based website security service that monitors websites and protects them from malware, vulnerabilities, and malicious traffic. $19.99+/month	9.4%
5	Azure Front Door Redmond, Washington, United States 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. $35+/month	6.3%
6	F5 BIG-IP Seattle, Washington, United States An enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic. $3,200+/year	3.1%
7	Azure Application Gateway Redmond, Washington, United States A managed web traffic load balancer and full reverse proxy that enables scalable, highly available, and secure web application delivery on Azure. $0.0255+/hour	3.1%
8	AWS WAF Captcha Seattle, Washington, United States A feature of the AWS Web Application Firewall that helps protect web applications by requiring requests that match specific criteria to solve a captcha puzzle or silent challenge before proceeding. $$$	3.1%
9	Ivanti vADC South Jordan, Utah, United States A software-based application delivery controller solution that delivers applications with predictable performance and strong multi-layered security and includes Virtual Traffic Manager, Services Director and Web Application Firewall. $$$	3.1%
⏳	FortiWeb Sunnyvale, California, United States A web application firewall that protects web applications and APIs from known and unknown exploits and zero-day threats. $3,400+	3.1%

👉 See Also

🌎 WAF in other countries

🗃️ 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 860 websites from Ghana.
We currently track the presence of 23 WAF technologies across the web.
Of these, 10 were detected on websites from Ghana.
Statistics were last calculated on November 3, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.