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Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework. It provides a robust set of features for building single, multi-page, and hybrid web applications, making it popular for backend development.

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36websites

use it — 1.4% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#8of 39

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 187)

8public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

1.36% of all websites we track run Express▲ 0.01 points since 20 Sep

At a glance

UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,555 websites · refreshed weekly

How Express sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details

51PerformanceLowaverage site: 5088AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8996Best practicesGoodaverage site: 9392SEOGoodaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about as fast as the average site

Express sites
4.6 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most Express sites load in 3.3–6.9 s. Home page weight: 2.3 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 6 public sites measured.

Who uses it?

Technology and Software is the biggest group

Technology and Software50%
Business Services25%
Entertainment13%
Financial Software13%

Share of 8 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

How Express sites are built

Closest partners. The number says how many times more often the tool runs on Express sites than on an average website. Hover a partner for its share of sites.

Zone.js17×Angular17×TypeScript7×Google Cloud CDN4×Google Cloud4×Amazon CloudFront2×AWS Certificate Manager2×

Stacks we see most. Tools that tend to run together with Express on the same websites. The percentage is the share of all 36 Express sites that run the whole stack.

3 stacks · swipe, drag or use the arrows
#1

Express + Amazon CloudFront + AWS Certificate Manager

19.4%7 of 36 sites
#2

Express + Angular + Zone.js

19.4%7 of 36 sites
#3

Express + React + Amazon CloudFront

11.1%4 of 36 sites

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 36 Express sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Google Tag Manager58%Google Analytics42%Cloudflare Browser Insights11%Linkedin Insight Tag11%OneTrust17%Microsoft Advertising14%Varnish11%Cart Functionality8%
Tag managerAnalyticsCookie consentAdvertisingSpeed and cachingOnline store

Similar tools in its category

Web frameworks: 187 tools known, 39 seen in our scans

Next.js375 sitesAlternativeNginx359 sitesAlternativeApache HTTP Server150 sitesAlternativeMarko149 sitesAlternativeMicrosoft ASP.NET79 sitesAlternativeNuxt.js47 sitesAlternativeLiteSpeed37 sitesAlternativeNext.js App Router31 sitesAlternative

How websites combine Express with other tools

Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.

Built on a platform 6Integrates with another 6Needs another tool 4Complements another tool 1Overlaps with another 1

Websites using Express

36 websites use Express: 1.4% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months. A selection is shown below.

Scores are out of 100: P Performance · A Accessibility · B Best practices · S SEO. Green 80+, yellow 65–79, orange 50–64, red below 50. The dot shows whether our last scan found the site failing (red) or not (green); Red, amber or blue: an active incident on the site's status page (outage, degraded, maintenance) or a failing scan; amber also means a certificate ending within 30 days. Hover the dot for details.

Questions about Express

How many websites use Express?
We found Express on 36 of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (1.4%). 8 of them have a public status page.
What is Express often used with?
Among the websites we scan, Express is often found alongside Amazon Web Services (38.9% of its sites), React (33.3% of its sites), Amazon CloudFront (30.6% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to Express?
Other web frameworks tools we recognize include Next.js, Nginx, Apache HTTP Server, Marko.

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