C vs Node.js

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

Top sites by authority

C · Node.js · 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 · Node.js · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 10,245

217,155

India 5,802

132,726

Germany 6,052

92,128

United Kingdom 5,091

90,170

Brazil 3,812

87,003

France 4,762

76,244

Canada 4,072

72,002

Japan 4,681

68,515

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, Jun 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 Node.js sites