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+
3
4
Open Page Rank 8+
71
17
Open Page Rank 7+
166
64
Open Page Rank 6+
230
99
Open Page Rank 5+
288
141
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
1,377
1,048
India
1,000
625
United Kingdom
947
447
Canada
882
401
Germany
867
397
France
856
326
Brazil
559
548
Spain
769
317
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 | 100 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.