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 209,464

21,694

India 130,321

20,212

Germany 86,344

12,883

Brazil 85,848

10,888

United Kingdom 84,833

9,805

France 68,813

10,240

Indonesia 61,745

14,580

Canada 66,201

7,577

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 Python sites