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+
68
6
Open Page Rank 8+
823
106
Open Page Rank 7+
2,351
320
Open Page Rank 6+
3,815
515
Open Page Rank 5+
5,791
733
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
38,356
3,041
India
23,670
1,561
United Kingdom
16,760
1,431
Brazil
15,957
894
Germany
15,250
1,131
Canada
13,841
1,344
France
14,018
1,028
Spain
11,544
920
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Express | Play |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 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, 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.
Express to Play
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| gsk.com | May 2026 |
Play to Express
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| runthrough.co.uk | May 2026 |