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+
63
13
Open Page Rank 8+
794
165
Open Page Rank 7+
2,329
536
Open Page Rank 6+
3,763
1,076
Open Page Rank 5+
5,743
1,963
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
41,639
9,306
India
25,247
3,708
United Kingdom
18,417
5,856
Germany
17,171
4,527
Canada
15,658
3,249
Brazil
16,922
1,849
France
15,941
2,629
Netherlands
11,720
4,129
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Express | Yii |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 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, 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.
Yii to Express
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| aragonhotelsweb.com | Dec 2025 |