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
68
Open Page Rank 8+
501
823
Open Page Rank 7+
1,402
2,351
Open Page Rank 6+
2,224
3,815
Open Page Rank 5+
3,215
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
Django · Express · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
10,176
38,356
India
6,463
23,670
Germany
8,092
15,250
United Kingdom
5,267
16,760
Brazil
4,271
15,957
France
4,514
14,018
Canada
3,965
13,841
Spain
4,433
11,544
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Django | 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, 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.
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 |
|---|---|
| esportslive.site | Jul 2026 |
| adityatrading.in | May 2026 |
| planin.mx | Jan 2026 |