F5 BigIP vs Hydra-Shield
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
F5 BigIP · Hydra-Shield · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
2
0
Open Page Rank 8+
71
0
Open Page Rank 7+
169
0
Open Page Rank 6+
229
0
Open Page Rank 5+
287
0
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
F5 BigIP · Hydra-Shield · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,374
1
India
993
0
United Kingdom
952
0
Canada
873
0
Germany
872
1
France
847
3
Spain
739
0
Italy
734
0
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | F5 BigIP | Hydra-Shield |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 25 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.03 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 850 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.