Express on new websites

1. About 1 in 65 websites that went live in the last 30 days were built with Express (1.6%).^[1]
2. It is the most common backend framework on new sites.
3. Half of new Express sites also use Lucide Icons.
4. Among product launches its share has held steady since June.

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use Express, day by day for the last 90 days and weekly before that (left of the dashed line). The shaded areas were measured against a different set of sites, so the line can step there without Express itself changing.^[2][3]

#	Movement	Tool	Share of all sites	Share of category[6]	Bar
1	–	Express	1.7%	46.1%
2	–	Laravel	0.9%	26.1%
3	–	ASP.NET	0.6%	17.3%
4	–	Rails	0.2%	6.2%
5	–	Laravel Livewire	0.2%	5.0%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Backend Framework tool. All 138 in Backend Framework

Tool	Sites with both	vs all new sites	Bar
shadcn/ui	38,775	12x
React Router	43,032	6.6x
Motion	35,552	6.0x
GoDaddy DNS	39,143	4.8x
Lucide Icons	49,654	3.1x

Tools that turn up far more often on Express sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.

19,191 of the 98,524 sites using Express are product launches we list individually. The other 79,333 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one. They are included in the StackScope API and in Stackdar alerts.

Site	Found	Also detected
ScheduleMe Hub — Practice Management Software & EMR for Health Practitioners schedulemehub.com · Health · Canada	Oct 17
Iron Meridian — Next Day 3PL Fulfilment for Ecommerce Brands ironmeridian.co.uk · E-commerce · United Kingdom	Oct 17
HIGHERUP higherupfilm.com · United States	Oct 17
FreeDJDrops — Free DJ Word Drops & Sound Effects freedjdrops.com · Content	Oct 17
FixtureKits — Modular Fixturing. Simplified. fixturekits.com	Oct 17
Gestão de Clínicas com IA nuris.tech	Oct 17
MyDealMyWay — Build Your Car Deal on Your Terms mydealmyway.ca · Canada	Oct 17
Sonny Paws Pet Box — Party in a Box for Your Pet sonnypawspetbox.com	Oct 17
Dijital Davetiye Oluştur ve Paylaş — Kare Kedi Medya karekedimedya.net · Türkiye	Oct 17
League Control — race league management, done properly leaguecontrol.co.uk · United Kingdom	Oct 17
TurnJar · Save together. Get paid in turns. turnjar.com · Finance	Oct 17
BondBridge | Digital Rental Bonds for Abu Dhabi bondbridge.co · Finance	Oct 17

Showing the most recent 12 of 19,191.

The StackScope API serves all 98,524 sites using Express, filterable and exportable, from £15 a month.

1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
2. Grey: before 8 July 2026, we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well, so the share is measured against a much larger set of sites. For one continuous measure, view launch platforms only.
3. Amber: 8 July to 10 September 2026, before we improved our infrastructure to index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live. Sites found that early often haven't finished setting up, so anything usually added after launch reads lower from 10 September. We record each site as it was when we found it.
4. Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.
5. Green hosting is the share whose web host The Green Web Foundation lists as running on green energy, among sites checked since 1 April 2026, against the same share for every new site we checked over that time. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
6. Some products people expect to see here are filed under a related category: Framework, Programming Language.