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
68
Open Page Rank 8+
0
823
Open Page Rank 7+
0
2,351
Open Page Rank 6+
0
3,815
Open Page Rank 5+
0
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
Blade · Express · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
0
38,356
India
0
23,670
United Kingdom
0
16,760
Brazil
0
15,957
Germany
0
15,250
France
0
14,018
Canada
0
13,841
Spain
0
11,544
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Blade | Express |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 3.7 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 200 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 2800 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.