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Azure Front Door

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Azure Front Door is Microsoft's global, scalable entry-point service that enhances the performance, reliability, and security of web applications. It combines global load balancing, multi-region failover, caching, and web application firewall (WAF) capabilities into a single network-as-a-service solution. Front Door uses Microsoft's global edge network to route traffic to the fastest and most available application backend. It offers features like SSL offloading, session affinity, and URL-based routing, making it suitable for both static and dynamic content. Front Door's integration with Azure services and its ability to accelerate and protect applications make it a powerful tool for businesses operating at a global scale.

Azure Front Door belongs toLoad balancerscategory.

21websites

use it — 0.8% of the 2,560 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#2of 4

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 5)

6public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

1.04% of all websites we track run Azure Front Door▼ 0.01 points since 20 Sep

At a glance

UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,560 websites · refreshed weekly

How Azure Front Door sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details

49PerformancePooraverage site: 5091AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8979Best practicesFairaverage site: 9392SEOGoodaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about 34% slower than the average site

Azure Front Door sites
5.8 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most Azure Front Door sites load in 3.8–9.4 s. Home page weight: 4.0 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 5 public sites measured.

Who uses it?

Technology and Software is the biggest group

Technology and Software50%
Cybersecurity33%
Business Services17%

Share of 6 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 21 Azure Front Door sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Google Tag Manager48%Google Analytics43%Azure Monitor29%Linkedin Insight Tag29%OneTrust29%Microsoft Advertising14%
Tag managerAnalyticsCookie consentAdvertising

Similar tools in its category

Load balancers: 5 tools known, 4 seen in our scans

Amazon ALB33 sitesAlternativeGoogle Cloud Load Balancing2 sitesAlternativeAmazon ELB1 sitesAlternativeApplication Request Routing0 sitesAlternative

Websites using Azure Front Door

21 websites use Azure Front Door: 0.8% of the 2,560 websites we scanned in the last 12 months. A selection is shown below.

Scores are out of 100: P Performance · A Accessibility · B Best practices · S SEO. Green 80+, yellow 65–79, orange 50–64, red below 50. The dot shows whether our last scan found the site failing (red) or not (green); Red, amber or blue: an active incident on the site's status page (outage, degraded, maintenance) or a failing scan; amber also means a certificate ending within 30 days. Hover the dot for details.

Questions about Azure Front Door

How many websites use Azure Front Door?
We found Azure Front Door on 21 of the 2,560 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (0.8%). 6 of them have a public status page.
What is Azure Front Door often used with?
Among the websites we scan, Azure Front Door is often found alongside Microsoft ASP.NET (33.3% of its sites), Azure Monitor (28.6% of its sites), Linkedin Insight Tag (28.6% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to Azure Front Door?
Other load balancers tools we recognize include Amazon ALB, Google Cloud Load Balancing, Amazon ELB, Application Request Routing.

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