Backbone.js vs React

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Backbone.js · React · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Backbone.js · React · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 59,715

595,277

India 21,472

243,719

United Kingdom 22,970

194,085

Germany 18,661

162,915

Brazil 11,185

164,323

Canada 18,322

148,255

France 16,342

143,971

Spain 15,467

106,955

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Backbone.js sites · All React sites