Go vs Node.js
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Go · Node.js · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
169
Open Page Rank 8+
10
2,733
Open Page Rank 7+
31
10,772
Open Page Rank 6+
42
20,203
Open Page Rank 5+
55
33,625
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Go · Node.js · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,297
217,155
India
749
132,726
Germany
711
92,128
United Kingdom
625
90,170
Brazil
630
87,003
France
611
76,244
Canada
542
72,002
Japan
367
68,515
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Go | Node.js |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 ms |
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.
Go to Node.js
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| cozynestwear.com | Jan 2026 |
| liara.online | Nov 2025 |
Node.js to Go
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| cozynestwear.com | Jan 2026 |