Express vs Shopify Web Components
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Express · Shopify Web Components · 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 · Shopify Web Components · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
38,356
732
India
23,670
163
United Kingdom
16,760
331
Brazil
15,957
53
Germany
15,250
142
France
14,018
152
Canada
13,841
187
Spain
11,544
99
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Express | Shopify Web Components |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 500 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 Shopify Web Components
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| divoboutique.com | Oct 2025 |