mod_perl vs mod_wsgi
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
mod_perl · mod_wsgi · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
4
9
Open Page Rank 8+
102
144
Open Page Rank 7+
263
264
Open Page Rank 6+
351
322
Open Page Rank 5+
457
372
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
mod_perl · mod_wsgi · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,857
1,304
India
1,162
940
Japan
1,045
817
Indonesia
1,018
678
United Kingdom
840
647
Germany
828
644
Canada
715
622
Brazil
660
653
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | mod_perl | mod_wsgi |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 700 ms |
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.
mod_perl to mod_wsgi
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| ruta-del-sol-mejor-hoteles.com | Nov 2025 |
mod_wsgi to mod_perl
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| hoteltarragona.net | Feb 2026 |
| kos-greece-hotels.com | Nov 2025 |
| santamartahotels.net | Nov 2025 |