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+
129
0
Open Page Rank 8+
2,282
21
Open Page Rank 7+
8,817
77
Open Page Rank 6+
15,329
96
Open Page Rank 5+
23,495
106
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
104,685
7,766
India
47,632
2,740
United Kingdom
34,317
2,460
Germany
34,304
1,968
Canada
30,484
2,710
Brazil
29,569
1,671
Indonesia
29,625
1,484
France
28,165
1,670
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, 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.
Lua to Java
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| unomaha.edu | Jun 2026 |