Hydra-Shield vs Kong
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Hydra-Shield · Kong · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
4
Open Page Rank 8+
0
17
Open Page Rank 7+
0
64
Open Page Rank 6+
0
99
Open Page Rank 5+
0
141
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 · Kong · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1
1,058
India
0
604
Brazil
0
550
United Kingdom
0
435
Germany
1
391
Canada
0
390
Indonesia
0
321
Thailand
0
319
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Hydra-Shield | Kong |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 0.9 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 25 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 700 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Oct 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.