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
68
Open Page Rank 8+
2
823
Open Page Rank 7+
5
2,351
Open Page Rank 6+
11
3,815
Open Page Rank 5+
14
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
Dancer · Express · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
29
38,356
India
28
23,670
United Kingdom
23
16,760
Brazil
14
15,957
Germany
26
15,250
France
16
14,018
Canada
15
13,841
Spain
14
11,544
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Dancer | Express |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 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, 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.