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+
5
11
Open Page Rank 8+
110
156
Open Page Rank 7+
281
290
Open Page Rank 6+
388
357
Open Page Rank 5+
511
423
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
2,270
1,485
India
1,325
1,069
Japan
1,264
993
Indonesia
1,193
784
Germany
984
790
United Kingdom
968
730
France
850
705
Canada
817
677
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | mod_perl | mod_wsgi |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 ms |
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.
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 |