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+
3
0
Open Page Rank 8+
71
0
Open Page Rank 7+
166
0
Open Page Rank 6+
230
0
Open Page Rank 5+
288
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
1,377
1
India
1,000
0
United Kingdom
947
0
Canada
882
0
Germany
867
1
France
856
2
Spain
769
0
Italy
761
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 | 1.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 12 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 900 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.