F5 BigIP vs Kong
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
F5 BigIP · Kong · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
2
4
Open Page Rank 8+
71
18
Open Page Rank 7+
169
63
Open Page Rank 6+
229
104
Open Page Rank 5+
287
145
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 · Kong · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,374
1,033
India
993
639
United Kingdom
952
443
Germany
872
401
Canada
873
396
France
847
330
Brazil
559
570
Spain
739
312
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | F5 BigIP | Kong |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 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.