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 103,678

21,862

India 46,985

20,021

Germany 34,013

12,818

Indonesia 29,812

14,615

United Kingdom 34,408

9,950

Brazil 29,287

10,713

Spain 28,586

10,442

France 28,434

10,498

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 Python sites