Node.js vs Perl

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Node.js · Perl · 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

Node.js · Perl · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 209,464

3,877

India 130,321

2,758

Germany 86,344

2,418

Brazil 85,848

1,404

United Kingdom 84,833

2,010

France 68,813

1,737

Canada 66,201

1,431

Indonesia 61,745

2,513

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, Aug 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 Node.js sites · All Perl sites