F5 BigIP vs IBM DataPower
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
F5 BigIP · IBM DataPower · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
2
Open Page Rank 8+
71
14
Open Page Rank 7+
166
24
Open Page Rank 6+
230
33
Open Page Rank 5+
288
40
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 · IBM DataPower · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,377
166
India
1,000
120
United Kingdom
947
130
Germany
867
134
Canada
882
105
France
856
114
Spain
769
116
Italy
761
115
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | F5 BigIP | IBM DataPower |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 700 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.