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 215,999

21,862

India 135,612

20,021

Germany 86,911

12,818

Brazil 88,226

10,713

United Kingdom 87,274

9,950

France 70,777

10,498

Indonesia 63,260

14,615

Canada 68,178

7,782

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, 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.

All Node.js sites · All Python sites