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.

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use Express, since 10 September.

#	Movement	Tool	Share of all sites	Share of category[4]	Bar
1	–	Express	1.7%	46.2%
2	–	Laravel	0.9%	25.9%
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 140 in Backend Framework

Tool	Sites with both	vs all new sites	Bar
shadcn/ui	40,085	12x
React Router	44,445	6.6x
Motion	36,726	6.1x
GoDaddy DNS	40,626	4.7x
Lucide Icons	51,015	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.

19,622 of the 101,334 sites using Express are product launches we list individually. The other 81,712 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.

Site	Found	Also detected
Serum Reports — Daily Reporting for Hospitality Operators serumreports.com	Oct 20
Lalan Music — Your Stage. Your Sound. lalanfultonmusic.info · Social	Oct 20
TagSpread: crosslisting for Depop, Vinted and Mercari tagspread.com · E-commerce	Oct 20
TOMBİŞLER - Kampanya & Fırsat Haritası tombisler.com · Türkiye	Oct 20
Ovitech — Precision Deboning Machines | Hamilton, New Zealand ovitechnz.com · New Zealand	Oct 20
Songwren: The Longest Night, a Yule Rock Opera songwren.net · Content	Oct 20
D.LAB AI Studio ssamba.io · Education · South Korea	Oct 20
The Virtual Flooring Estimator — Accurate Takeoffs, No Overhead thevirtualflooringestimator.com	Oct 19
Motorax — Find your next car motorax.co.uk · United Kingdom	Oct 19
ez2will — Islamic Wills & Estate Planning at a Fraction of the Cost ez2will.com	Oct 19
PRIME-1 Games™ — Educational Games & Psychological Development psychologicalsteppingstones.com	Oct 19
Quickread - speed read the parts you actually need quickread.uk · Productivity · United Kingdom	Oct 19

Showing the most recent 12 of 19,622.

Watches, exports and the API give you all 101,334 sites using Express, from £15 a month.

1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Some products people expect to see here are filed under a related category: Framework, Programming Language.