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 217,155

4,472

India 132,726

3,070

Germany 92,128

2,618

United Kingdom 90,170

2,153

Brazil 87,003

1,518

France 76,244

2,034

Canada 72,002

1,645

Japan 68,515

1,900

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, 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.

All Node.js sites · All Perl sites