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 38,356

13,010

Brazil 15,957

31,931

India 23,670

3,961

United Kingdom 16,760

2,224

Germany 15,250

1,765

Canada 13,841

2,370

France 14,018

1,518

Philippines 8,269

5,768

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, 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.

All Express sites · All Ionic sites