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 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 1,157

209,464

India 661

130,321

Germany 631

86,344

Brazil 568

85,848

United Kingdom 550

84,833

France 491

68,813

Canada 475

66,201

Indonesia 443

61,745

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, 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.

All Go sites · All Node.js sites