Java vs Node.js

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

Top sites by authority

Java · 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

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

United States 104,685

209,464

India 47,632

130,321

Germany 34,304

86,344

United Kingdom 34,317

84,833

Brazil 29,569

85,848

France 28,165

68,813

Canada 30,484

66,201

Indonesia 29,625

61,745

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 Java sites · All Node.js sites