Programming languages · comparison
Perl vs Python
Python is used on 150,865 sites, 11 times as many as Perl (13,119 sites).
In Programming languages, Perl ranks #7 and Python #4 by number of sites.
From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, Perl grew 3.6% and Python grew 0.1%.
558 sites run both: 4.3% of Perl sites and 0.4% of Python sites.
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Perl
perl.org
- Sites
- 13,119
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.08%
- Rank in Programming languages
- #7
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +3.6%
Py
Python
python.org
- Sites
- 150,865
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.99%
- Rank in Programming languages
- #4
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.14%
Sites using both
558
sites run Perl and Python
of Perl sites4.3%
of Python sites0.4%
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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.