Go vs Java
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Go · Java · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
129
Open Page Rank 8+
8
2,282
Open Page Rank 7+
28
8,817
Open Page Rank 6+
38
15,329
Open Page Rank 5+
52
23,495
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Go · Java · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,157
104,685
India
661
47,632
Germany
631
34,304
United Kingdom
550
34,317
Canada
475
30,484
Brazil
568
29,569
Indonesia
443
29,625
France
491
28,165
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Go | Java |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 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.
Go to Java
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| westshorehonda.com | Mar 2026 |