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+
68
1
Open Page Rank 8+
823
15
Open Page Rank 7+
2,351
34
Open Page Rank 6+
3,815
62
Open Page Rank 5+
5,791
101
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
38,356
318
India
23,670
108
United Kingdom
16,760
156
Brazil
15,957
88
Germany
15,250
314
France
14,018
125
Canada
13,841
83
Spain
11,544
175
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Express | Stencil |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 3.2 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.15 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 1000 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 Stencil
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| wickedcampers.com | Sep 2025 |