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+
2
225
Open Page Rank 8+
15
3,854
Open Page Rank 7+
27
15,804
Open Page Rank 6+
56
30,256
Open Page Rank 5+
95
51,401
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
1,267
596,374
India
575
237,671
United Kingdom
570
191,623
Germany
535
162,924
Brazil
442
161,653
Canada
712
147,238
France
433
140,452
Australia
366
101,917
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 | 750 ms | 700 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.
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 |