Java vs Python

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 104,685

21,694

India 47,632

20,212

Germany 34,304

12,883

Indonesia 29,625

14,580

United Kingdom 34,317

9,805

Brazil 29,569

10,888

France 28,165

10,240

Canada 30,484

7,577

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 Python sites