Datadog vs Pingdom RUM
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Datadog · Pingdom RUM · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
70
19
Open Page Rank 8+
778
132
Open Page Rank 7+
2,305
365
Open Page Rank 6+
3,865
638
Open Page Rank 5+
5,778
1,018
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Datadog · Pingdom RUM · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
83,715
4,228
United Kingdom
17,025
2,365
Canada
15,095
2,052
India
12,732
2,210
South Korea
12,033
583
Australia
10,817
1,529
Germany
9,961
1,664
France
9,867
1,620
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Datadog | Pingdom RUM |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 2 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 900 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Datadog to Pingdom RUM
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| gld.com | Mar 2026 |
| logcabinpancakehouse.com | Sep 2025 |
Pingdom RUM to Datadog
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| naturepedic.com | Jul 2025 |
| naturepedic.ca | Jul 2025 |