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Akamai Web Application Protector

1,085

companies run it, <0.01% of 54,527,857 in the index. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Hosts: 291,676 live hosts run it, of 191,809,695 hosts in the index, 0.15%. A host is a website, not a company.

Companies by month

Companies, monthly, on the fixed panel of sites crawled since 2020of 54,527,857 in the indexlanding 12 Sept 2026

1,085 at Sept 26; 1,159 twelve months earlier, -74, -6.4% on the fixed panel; the series starts January 2021 because the panel is anchored at 31 Dec 2020

The 69 numbers in this chart
MonthCompaniesObserved on the panel
2021-0100
2021-0200
2021-0300
2021-0400
2021-0500
2021-0600
2021-0700
2021-08withheld0
2021-09withheld0
2021-10withheld0
2021-11withheld0
2021-12withheld0
2022-01withheld0
2022-02withheld0
2022-03withheld0
2022-04withheld0
2022-05withheld0
2022-06withheld0
2022-07withheld0
2022-08withheld0
2022-09withheld0
2022-10215
2022-11215
2022-12225
2023-01225
2023-02236
2023-03236
2023-0414837
2023-0521052
2023-0627268
2023-0733383
2023-0839599
2023-09457114
2023-10519129
2023-11580145
2023-12642160
2024-01704176
2024-02766191
2024-03830207
2024-04894223
2024-05833208
2024-06835208
2024-07837209
2024-08839209
2024-09847211
2024-10877219
2024-11909227
2024-12933233
2025-01966241
2025-02989247
2025-031,012252
2025-041,040259
2025-051,060264
2025-061,091272
2025-071,114278
2025-081,143285
2025-091,159289
2025-101,170292
2025-111,159289
2025-121,146286
2026-011,141285
2026-021,130282
2026-031,130282
2026-041,130282
2026-051,121280
2026-061,122280
2026-071,108276
2026-081,101275
2026-091,085271

Both denominators, and a third

Shares of the same 1,085each row a different wholelanding 12 Sept 2026

Denominator
Companies
Share
companies in the index
54,527,857
<0.01%
companies running anything in WAF and Bot Management
11,966,860
<0.01%
companies running anything in Web application firewalls
163,881
0.66%

Three wholes, three shares of one count: a share travels with its whole, never alone. Against the last of them, Akamai Web Application Protector is rank 8 of 18 technologies in Web application firewalls.

Open as a segment

1,085 companies; add a country, a sector or a band on the segment page. Counting is free.

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Catalogue record

As recorded in the cataloguetaxonomy release tax-2026.10last discovered 9 Sept 2026

Akamai Web Application Protector is a managed WAF and DDoS protection service.

Web Application Protector provides rule-based protection and managed updates to block common web attacks and absorb denial-of-service traffic. It is delivered by Akamai and used by organizations to secure websites and APIs.

Kindproduct
VendorAkamai, akamai.com
Slugakamai-web-application-protector
Deploymentsaas
Pricingquote based, subscription
Open sourceno
First discovered2022-02-02
Last discovered2026-09-09
Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10