Essential JS 2 vs React
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Essential JS 2 · React · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
223
Open Page Rank 8+
12
3,802
Open Page Rank 7+
27
15,708
Open Page Rank 6+
55
30,122
Open Page Rank 5+
95
51,158
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Essential JS 2 · React · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,412
651,665
India
657
252,538
United Kingdom
636
210,954
Germany
608
176,161
Brazil
488
168,763
Canada
823
164,079
France
538
159,876
Australia
399
111,932
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Essential JS 2 | React |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 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.
Essential JS 2 to React
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| clarity.video | Mar 2026 |
| eighteenrestaurant.com | Nov 2025 |
React to Essential JS 2
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| puntorigen.mx | Nov 2025 |