Dancer vs Express
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Dancer · 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+
2
813
Open Page Rank 7+
5
2,340
Open Page Rank 6+
11
3,777
Open Page Rank 5+
14
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
Dancer · Express · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
28
38,574
India
28
23,764
United Kingdom
21
16,896
Brazil
13
15,921
Germany
26
15,170
Canada
15
14,018
France
20
13,689
Spain
16
12,088
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Dancer | Express |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 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, 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.