Java vs Perl

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

Top sites by authority

Java · Perl · 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 · Perl · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 115,677

4,472

India 53,805

3,070

Germany 39,854

2,618

United Kingdom 39,030

2,153

Canada 35,015

1,645

France 34,236

2,034

Indonesia 32,744

2,807

Brazil 32,646

1,518

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, 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.

All Java sites · All Perl sites