Express vs Ionic

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Express · Ionic · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Express · Ionic · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 38,574

12,835

Brazil 15,921

33,586

India 23,764

3,887

United Kingdom 16,896

2,265

Germany 15,170

1,704

Canada 14,018

2,364

France 13,689

1,491

Philippines 8,249

5,856

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Express sites · All Ionic sites