Perl vs Python

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

Top sites by authority

Perl · 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

Perl · Python · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 4,472

24,352

India 3,070

22,541

Indonesia 2,807

17,283

Germany 2,618

14,576

France 2,034

12,205

Brazil 1,518

11,966

Spain 1,783

11,442

United Kingdom 2,153

10,983

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 Perl sites · All Python sites