Programming languages · comparison
Java vs Ruby
Java is used on 223,791 sites, 70% more than Ruby (131,286 sites).
In Programming languages, Java ranks #3 and Ruby #5 by number of sites.
From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, Java grew 0.4% and Ruby grew 0.3%.
137 sites run both: less than 0.1% of Java sites and 0.1% of Ruby 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%
Ru
Ruby
ruby-lang.org
- Sites
- 131,286
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.85%
- Rank in Programming languages
- #5
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.27%
Sites using both
137
sites run Java and Ruby
of Java sites<0.1%
of Ruby sites0.1%
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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.