C vs Java

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

Top sites by authority

C · Java · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

C · Java · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 8,940

103,678

India 5,058

46,985

Germany 5,289

34,013

United Kingdom 4,556

34,408

Canada 3,483

30,613

Indonesia 3,254

29,812

Brazil 3,358

29,287

France 4,044

28,434

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

Real user performance

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

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All C sites · All Java sites