Blitz.js vs Express
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Blitz.js · Express · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
70
Open Page Rank 8+
0
813
Open Page Rank 7+
2
2,340
Open Page Rank 6+
4
3,777
Open Page Rank 5+
7
5,713
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Blitz.js · Express · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
28
38,574
India
13
23,764
United Kingdom
11
16,896
Brazil
2
15,921
Germany
13
15,170
Canada
7
14,018
France
5
13,689
Spain
3
12,088
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Blitz.js | Express |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 400 ms | 800 ms |
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.