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+
1
3
Open Page Rank 8+
65
16
Open Page Rank 7+
166
62
Open Page Rank 6+
228
106
Open Page Rank 5+
289
151
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
1,514
1,205
India
1,113
715
United Kingdom
1,053
524
Germany
983
485
Canada
968
473
France
1,001
396
Brazil
626
623
Italy
852
357
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 | 700 ms | 800 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.