Node.js vs Rust
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Node.js · Rust · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
168
0
Open Page Rank 8+
2,796
2
Open Page Rank 7+
10,989
2
Open Page Rank 6+
20,602
2
Open Page Rank 5+
34,313
3
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 · Rust · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
215,999
537
India
135,612
250
Brazil
88,226
218
United Kingdom
87,274
243
Germany
86,911
220
France
70,777
208
Canada
68,178
256
Indonesia
63,260
154
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Node.js | Rust |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 2 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 800 ms |
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.