🆚 Application Request Routing vs. F5 BIG-IP

📈 F5 BIG-IP is slightly more popular than Application Request Routing.
🌎 F5 BIG-IP is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Canada.
🌍 Application Request Routing is more popular in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Australia.

Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Type

Load balancer

About

Application Request Routing is a module for Internet Information Server (IIS) that can load-balance between multiple servers in a server farm.

F5 BIG-IP is an enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic.

It offers programmable Layer 4-7 load balancing with advanced health checks, web application firewall protection against OWASP Top 10 threats, DDoS mitigation, and access control and authentication options including Active Directory/LDAP/RADIUS, and single sign-on.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

iis.net #106,574

f5.com #2,097

Pricing

Free version ❌Free 30-day trial

$3,200+/year

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The F5 BIG-IP load balancer is 1.1 times more popular than Application Request Routing.

Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

F5 BIG-IP is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Canada, while Application Request Routing is more popular in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Australia.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Canada

Netherlands

Australia

Sweden

Brazil

France

Norway

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Slovenia in the Load Balancers category.
🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the Load Balancers category.
🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Load Balancers category.
🥈 Second most popular in Norway in the Load Balancers category.
🥈 Second most popular in Denmark in the Load Balancers category.

🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Slovakia in the Load Balancers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

F5 BIG-IP is more popular among sites focused on finance and banking, education and reference, and government and military, while Application Request Routing is more commonly used on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping sites.

Business

Finance/Banking

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Government/Military

Health

Online Shopping

Internet Services

Software/Hardware

Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#227

#342

#716

#1,166

#1,396

Name

Rank

#110

#135

#183

#209

#240