Programming languages · comparison
Java vs Perl
Java is used on 223,791 sites, 17 times as many as Perl (13,119 sites).
In Programming languages, Java ranks #3 and Perl #7 by number of sites.
From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, Java grew 0.4% and Perl grew 3.6%.
123 sites run both: less than 0.1% of Java sites and 0.9% of Perl sites.
Ja
Java
java.com
- Sites
- 223,791
- Share of tracked sites
- 1.43%
- Rank in Programming languages
- #3
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.43%
Pe
Perl
perl.org
- Sites
- 13,119
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.08%
- Rank in Programming languages
- #7
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +3.6%
Sites using both
123
sites run Java and Perl
of Java sites<0.1%
of Perl sites0.9%
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Site counts and ranks come from our crawl of the web; the change compares the monthly adoption snapshots both technologies have.