Express vs Spring
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Express · Spring · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
68
2
Open Page Rank 8+
811
55
Open Page Rank 7+
2,333
124
Open Page Rank 6+
3,764
162
Open Page Rank 5+
5,709
216
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Express · Spring · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
38,574
859
India
23,764
610
United Kingdom
16,896
567
Brazil
15,921
485
Germany
15,170
642
Canada
14,018
461
France
13,689
566
Spain
12,088
468
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Express | Spring |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 600 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.