mod_python vs mod_ssl
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
mod_python · mod_ssl · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
1
Open Page Rank 8+
8
37
Open Page Rank 7+
15
115
Open Page Rank 6+
23
182
Open Page Rank 5+
29
254
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
mod_python · mod_ssl · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Japan
168
2,538
United States
212
2,061
South Korea
57
1,782
Germany
189
1,065
India
131
1,063
France
126
986
Italy
186
874
United Kingdom
126
912
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | mod_python | mod_ssl |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 600 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_python to mod_ssl
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| hotelsofchennai.com | Nov 2025 |
mod_ssl to mod_python
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| ofsayulita.com | Dec 2025 |
| bloemfonteinweb.com | Dec 2025 |