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+
68
1
Open Page Rank 8+
823
10
Open Page Rank 7+
2,351
16
Open Page Rank 6+
3,815
25
Open Page Rank 5+
5,791
36
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
38,356
271
India
23,670
110
United Kingdom
16,760
121
Brazil
15,957
70
Germany
15,250
133
France
14,018
136
Canada
13,841
77
Spain
11,544
81
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, 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.