Hydra-Shield vs IBM DataPower
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Hydra-Shield · IBM DataPower · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
2
Open Page Rank 8+
0
14
Open Page Rank 7+
0
25
Open Page Rank 6+
0
31
Open Page Rank 5+
0
38
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Hydra-Shield · IBM DataPower · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1
167
Germany
1
134
United Kingdom
0
130
France
3
115
India
0
117
Italy
0
111
Canada
0
107
Netherlands
0
105
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Hydra-Shield | IBM DataPower |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 25 ms | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0.03 | 0 |
| TTFB | 850 ms | 600 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.