Programming languages · comparison
Node.js vs Perl
Node.js is used on 488,171 sites, 37 times as many as Perl (13,119 sites).
In Programming languages, Node.js ranks #2 and Perl #7 by number of sites.
From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, Node.js grew 0.3% and Perl grew 3.6%.
138 sites run both: less than 0.1% of Node.js sites and 1.1% of Perl sites.
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Node.js
nodejs.org
- Sites
- 488,171
- Share of tracked sites
- 3.16%
- Rank in Programming languages
- #2
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.28%
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
138
sites run Node.js and Perl
of Node.js sites<0.1%
of Perl sites1.1%
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