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 7,617

215,999

India 2,676

135,612

Brazil 1,663

88,226

United Kingdom 2,471

87,274

Germany 1,917

86,911

France 1,669

70,777

Canada 2,676

68,178

Indonesia 1,497

63,260

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 Lua sites · All Node.js sites