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Web Technology Trends - June 2025

Matthias Gelbmann — 2025-06-05T00:00:00Z

We present some of the highlights of our surveysÂ in the various categories that might not be obvious from browsing through our pages.

Sam Soltano — 2020-04-14T00:00:00Z

50% of all PHP sites now use version 7, more that 4 years after its initial release.

Matthias Gelbmann — 2018-01-03T00:00:00Z

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.

Sam Soltano — 2017-03-22T00:00:00Z

The top 10 content management systems are 3 hosted platforms and 7 PHP-based systems.

Sam Soltano — 2017-03-21T00:00:00Z

PHP version 5.6 is now the most used PHP version.

Matthias Gelbmann — 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.

Sam Soltano — 2016-10-28T00:00:00Z

PHP version 5.3, which reached end of life in August 2014, is still the most used PHP version.

Sam Soltano — 2016-07-13T00:00:00Z

PHP version 7 is now used by 1% of all PHP sites, this is below version 4. Version 5 still dominates with 97.9%.

Matthias Gelbmann — 2015-01-05T00:00:00Z

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.

Sam Soltano — 2014-12-03T00:00:00Z

We still find websites running PHP version 3.0, released in 1998 and supported until 2000.