Go vs Python
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Go · Python · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
63
Open Page Rank 8+
10
810
Open Page Rank 7+
31
2,228
Open Page Rank 6+
42
3,569
Open Page Rank 5+
55
5,214
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Go · Python · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,297
24,352
India
749
22,541
Indonesia
520
17,283
Germany
711
14,576
France
611
12,205
Brazil
630
11,966
Spain
495
11,442
United Kingdom
625
10,983
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Go | Python |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1000 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.