Express vs Phoenix
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Express · Phoenix · 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+
823
0
Open Page Rank 7+
2,351
0
Open Page Rank 6+
3,815
0
Open Page Rank 5+
5,791
0
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Express · Phoenix · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
38,356
232
India
23,670
79
United Kingdom
16,760
95
Brazil
15,957
59
Germany
15,250
74
France
14,018
64
Canada
13,841
77
Spain
11,544
68
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Express | Phoenix |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 900 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.