Java vs Lua
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Java · Lua · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
126
0
Open Page Rank 8+
2,314
26
Open Page Rank 7+
8,936
86
Open Page Rank 6+
15,536
106
Open Page Rank 5+
23,824
115
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Java · Lua · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
115,677
8,826
India
53,805
3,155
Germany
39,854
2,310
United Kingdom
39,030
2,845
Canada
35,015
3,117
France
34,236
2,053
Brazil
32,646
1,874
Indonesia
32,744
1,763
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Java | Lua |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 700 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.
Lua to Java
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| unomaha.edu | Jun 2026 |