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+
811
14
Open Page Rank 7+
2,333
30
Open Page Rank 6+
3,764
52
Open Page Rank 5+
5,709
84
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
38,574
304
India
23,764
113
United Kingdom
16,896
153
Brazil
15,921
88
Germany
15,170
194
Canada
14,018
83
France
13,689
126
Spain
12,088
149
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Express | Stencil |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 2.9 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.1 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 900 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Stencil to Express
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| gog-statics.com | Aug 2026 |