Perl vs Ruby
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Perl · Ruby · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
8
92
Open Page Rank 8+
214
1,463
Open Page Rank 7+
621
4,571
Open Page Rank 6+
1,004
7,743
Open Page Rank 5+
1,473
11,847
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Perl · Ruby · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,891
81,570
United Kingdom
2,016
32,043
India
2,759
31,121
Canada
1,463
28,481
Germany
2,400
24,686
France
1,819
24,562
Spain
1,610
20,611
Japan
1,581
20,589
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Perl | Ruby |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Perl to Ruby
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| nccampuscompact.org | Feb 2026 |
| aegeanhotels.net | Dec 2025 |
| hoteis-em-suldobrasil.com | Dec 2025 |
| hotelsrigalv.com | Nov 2025 |
| marrakeshotels.com | Nov 2025 |
Ruby to Perl
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| pune-hotels.com | Jan 2026 |
| itb-ad.ac.id | Dec 2025 |
| unisla.ac.id | Dec 2025 |