Python vs Ruby

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

Top sites by authority

Python · 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

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

United States 21,862

81,570

India 20,021

31,121

United Kingdom 9,950

32,043

Germany 12,818

24,686

Canada 7,782

28,481

France 10,498

24,562

Indonesia 14,615

18,371

Spain 10,442

20,611

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, 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.

All Python sites · All Ruby sites