Handlebars vs React

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

468,931
websites
vs
6,558,993
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+ 54 223
Open Page Rank 8+ 848 3,873
Open Page Rank 7+ 2,637 15,946
Open Page Rank 6+ 4,286 30,497
Open Page Rank 5+ 6,450 51,750

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 58,799 595,277
India 18,511 243,719
United Kingdom 19,998 194,085
Germany 16,080 162,915
Brazil 9,604 164,323
Canada 17,465 148,255
France 13,694 143,971
Spain 12,778 106,955

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, 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

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