Express vs Ruby on Rails

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

Top sites by authority

Express · Ruby on Rails · 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 · Ruby on Rails · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 41,639

83,667

India 25,247

32,385

United Kingdom 18,417

33,120

Canada 15,658

29,524

Germany 17,171

26,112

France 15,941

26,676

Brazil 16,922

20,531

Japan 12,810

22,820

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 Ruby on Rails sites