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 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 3,877

81,172

India 2,758

31,163

United Kingdom 2,010

31,238

Canada 1,431

27,720

Germany 2,418

24,578

France 1,737

24,019

Japan 1,600

20,441

Brazil 1,404

19,689

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 Perl sites · All Ruby sites