Express vs Fat-Free Framework
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Express · Fat-Free Framework · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
70
1
Open Page Rank 8+
813
8
Open Page Rank 7+
2,340
14
Open Page Rank 6+
3,777
24
Open Page Rank 5+
5,713
35
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Express · Fat-Free Framework · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
38,574
263
India
23,764
107
United Kingdom
16,896
121
Brazil
15,921
66
Germany
15,170
134
Canada
14,018
81
France
13,689
141
Spain
12,088
86
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Express | Fat-Free Framework |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 700 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.