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 8,826

217,155

India 3,155

132,726

Germany 2,310

92,128

United Kingdom 2,845

90,170

Brazil 1,874

87,003

France 2,053

76,244

Canada 3,117

72,002

Japan 1,792

68,515

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 Lua sites · All Node.js sites