Express vs Yii
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Express · Yii · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
70
14
Open Page Rank 8+
813
154
Open Page Rank 7+
2,340
508
Open Page Rank 6+
3,777
1,031
Open Page Rank 5+
5,713
1,881
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Express · Yii · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
38,574
8,256
India
23,764
3,264
United Kingdom
16,896
5,185
Germany
15,170
3,848
Brazil
15,921
1,697
Canada
14,018
2,806
France
13,689
2,260
Netherlands
10,683
3,644
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Express | Yii |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 800 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.
Yii to Express
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| aragonhotelsweb.com | Dec 2025 |