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 38,356

77,772

India 23,670

29,983

United Kingdom 16,760

30,362

Canada 13,841

26,938

Germany 15,250

23,823

France 14,018

23,442

Brazil 15,957

19,111

Japan 11,397

19,999

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, 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.

All Express sites · All Ruby on Rails sites