Blade vs Express
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Blade · Express · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
63
Open Page Rank 8+
0
794
Open Page Rank 7+
0
2,329
Open Page Rank 6+
0
3,763
Open Page Rank 5+
0
5,743
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Blade · Express · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
0
41,639
India
0
25,247
United Kingdom
0
18,417
Germany
0
17,171
Brazil
0
16,922
France
0
15,941
Canada
0
15,658
Spain
0
13,005
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Blade | Express |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 3.9 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 112 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0.08 | 0 |
| TTFB | 2850 ms | 800 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.