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 24,763

209,464

India 6,068

130,321

Germany 10,392

86,344

United Kingdom 6,327

84,833

Brazil 3,779

85,848

France 5,326

68,813

Canada 5,484

66,201

Japan 3,427

61,829

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 GraphQL sites · All Node.js sites