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+
2
127
Open Page Rank 8+
8
2,258
Open Page Rank 7+
26
8,728
Open Page Rank 6+
35
15,094
Open Page Rank 5+
48
23,134
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
1,127
103,678
India
676
46,985
United Kingdom
540
34,408
Germany
606
34,013
Canada
467
30,613
Indonesia
434
29,812
Brazil
568
29,287
Spain
461
28,586
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 | 700 ms |
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.
Go to Java
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| westshorehonda.com | Mar 2026 |