Express vs Play
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Express · Play · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
63
6
Open Page Rank 8+
794
106
Open Page Rank 7+
2,329
331
Open Page Rank 6+
3,763
535
Open Page Rank 5+
5,743
750
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Express · Play · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
41,639
3,396
India
25,247
1,765
United Kingdom
18,417
1,609
Germany
17,171
1,294
Brazil
16,922
986
Canada
15,658
1,542
France
15,941
1,240
Spain
13,005
1,099
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Express | Play |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 700 ms |
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.
Play to Express
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| runthrough.co.uk | May 2026 |