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
13
Open Page Rank 7+
0
25
Open Page Rank 6+
0
33
Open Page Rank 5+
0
40
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
2
189
Germany
2
154
United Kingdom
0
147
France
5
136
Italy
0
129
Spain
0
127
Canada
0
125
India
0
125
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Hydra-Shield | IBM DataPower |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 25 ms | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 1700 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.