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 103,678

3,891

India 46,985

2,759

United Kingdom 34,408

2,016

Germany 34,013

2,400

Indonesia 29,812

2,517

Canada 30,613

1,463

Brazil 29,287

1,413

France 28,434

1,819

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, Sep 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