Express vs Stencil
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Express · Stencil · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
63
2
Open Page Rank 8+
794
15
Open Page Rank 7+
2,329
31
Open Page Rank 6+
3,763
46
Open Page Rank 5+
5,743
70
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Express · Stencil · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
41,639
285
India
25,247
114
United Kingdom
18,417
159
Germany
17,171
163
Brazil
16,922
90
France
15,941
124
Canada
15,658
86
Spain
13,005
130
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Express | Stencil |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 2.6 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 900 ms |
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.
Express to Stencil
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| wickedcampers.com | Sep 2025 |