Django vs Express
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Django · Express · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
41
63
Open Page Rank 8+
490
794
Open Page Rank 7+
1,356
2,329
Open Page Rank 6+
2,175
3,763
Open Page Rank 5+
3,181
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
Django · Express · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
11,309
41,639
India
6,952
25,247
Germany
9,073
17,171
United Kingdom
5,787
18,417
Brazil
4,608
16,922
France
5,365
15,941
Canada
4,455
15,658
Spain
5,101
13,005
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Django | Express |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Express to Django
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| planin.mx | Jan 2026 |