Lua vs Node.js

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

Top sites by authority

Lua · 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

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

United States 7,766

209,464

India 2,740

130,321

Germany 1,968

86,344

Brazil 1,671

85,848

United Kingdom 2,460

84,833

France 1,670

68,813

Canada 2,710

66,201

Japan 1,538

61,829

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 Lua sites · All Node.js sites