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+
1
2
Open Page Rank 8+
65
13
Open Page Rank 7+
166
25
Open Page Rank 6+
228
33
Open Page Rank 5+
289
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
1,514
189
India
1,113
125
United Kingdom
1,053
147
France
1,001
136
Germany
983
154
Canada
968
125
Italy
852
129
Spain
841
127
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | F5 BigIP | IBM DataPower |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 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.