Express vs Java Servlet

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 41,639

2,160

India 25,247

1,315

United Kingdom 18,417

1,168

Brazil 16,922

1,455

Germany 17,171

1,188

France 15,941

1,141

Canada 15,658

1,140

Spain 13,005

1,190

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, Jun 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 Java Servlet sites