Node.js vs Python

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 217,155

24,352

India 132,726

22,541

Germany 92,128

14,576

United Kingdom 90,170

10,983

Brazil 87,003

11,966

France 76,244

12,205

Indonesia 66,071

17,283

Canada 72,002

8,657

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 Python sites