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 8,940

215,999

India 5,058

135,612

Germany 5,289

86,911

United Kingdom 4,556

87,274

Brazil 3,358

88,226

France 4,044

70,777

Canada 3,483

68,178

Japan 4,060

62,688

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 Node.js sites