Handlebars vs React

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

465,903
websites
vs
6,234,393
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+ 59 225
Open Page Rank 8+ 864 3,854
Open Page Rank 7+ 2,732 15,804
Open Page Rank 6+ 4,463 30,256
Open Page Rank 5+ 6,707 51,401

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 60,105 596,374
India 18,798 237,671
United Kingdom 19,994 191,623
Germany 16,238 162,924
Brazil 9,703 161,653
Canada 17,534 147,238
France 13,581 140,452
Australia 12,422 101,917

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

Real user performance

Metric Handlebars React
LCP 1.8 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, 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

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