GraphQL vs Python
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
GraphQL · Python · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
42
63
Open Page Rank 8+
466
810
Open Page Rank 7+
1,321
2,228
Open Page Rank 6+
2,198
3,569
Open Page Rank 5+
3,279
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
GraphQL · Python · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
26,670
24,352
India
6,738
22,541
Germany
11,069
14,576
Indonesia
3,576
17,283
France
6,138
12,205
United Kingdom
6,948
10,983
Spain
5,196
11,442
Brazil
3,869
11,966
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | GraphQL | Python |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 100 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
GraphQL to Python
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| cuhk.edu.hk | Feb 2026 |
Python to GraphQL
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| fentpais.cat | Mar 2026 |
| hbadl.org | Sep 2025 |
| buchananlibrary.org | Sep 2025 |