GraphQL vs Node.js

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

GraphQL · 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

GraphQL · Node.js · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 24,841

215,999

India 5,959

135,612

Germany 10,069

86,911

United Kingdom 6,249

87,274

Brazil 3,817

88,226

France 5,268

70,777

Canada 5,474

68,178

Indonesia 3,166

63,260

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, 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.

All GraphQL sites · All Node.js sites