Handlebars vs React

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

463,388
websites
vs
5,951,407
websites

Top sites by authority

Handlebars · React · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank 9+ 56 223
Open Page Rank 8+ 849 3,802
Open Page Rank 7+ 2,785 15,708
Open Page Rank 6+ 4,598 30,122
Open Page Rank 5+ 6,909 51,158

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Handlebars · React · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 68,766 651,665
India 21,275 252,538
United Kingdom 22,888 210,954
Germany 18,753 176,161
Canada 20,396 164,079
Brazil 10,746 168,763
France 16,365 159,876
Australia 14,008 111,932

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Metric Handlebars React
LCP 1.9 s 1.9 s
INP 75 ms 75 ms
CLS 0 0
TTFB 700 ms 700 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

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