Express vs Ktor
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Express · Ktor · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
68
0
Open Page Rank 8+
811
0
Open Page Rank 7+
2,333
1
Open Page Rank 6+
3,764
1
Open Page Rank 5+
5,709
1
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Express · Ktor · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
38,574
3
India
23,764
2
United Kingdom
16,896
2
Brazil
15,921
1
Germany
15,170
1
Canada
14,018
3
France
13,689
2
Spain
12,088
1
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Express | Ktor |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 400 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.