Akka HTTP vs Express
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Akka HTTP · Express · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
68
Open Page Rank 8+
2
823
Open Page Rank 7+
7
2,351
Open Page Rank 6+
10
3,815
Open Page Rank 5+
11
5,791
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Akka HTTP · Express · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
42
38,356
India
8
23,670
United Kingdom
19
16,760
Brazil
8
15,957
Germany
15
15,250
France
14
14,018
Canada
14
13,841
Spain
13
11,544
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Akka HTTP | Express |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 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, 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.