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PHP Market Report

This extensive report shows many detailed statistics of the server-side programming language market with a specific focus on PHP.

Our technology market report is a detailed monthly report on the usage of PHP as server-side programming language on websites. The report comes via email as a PDF file and has over 420 pages covering this information:

• Server-side Programming Languages Industry Reports
  • Usage Report
    How popular is each of the server-side programming languages? Shows percentages of usage for all 23 server-side programming languages that we monitor. Also shows how much these figures changed compared to the last month and to the last year.
  • Historical Trend Report
    How did the popularity of the server-side programming languages change over time? Shows tables and diagrams of historical trends of usage for all server-side programming languages since January 2014. Please note, that we permanently keep adding more server-side programming languages to our surveys, therefore not all of them cover the entire time frame.
  • Growth Rate Report
    Which are the fastest growing server-side programming languages? Shows the current growth rates in the usage of all server-side programming languages both in absolute figures and percentages in the last month and in the last year.
  • New Site Usage Report
    How popular is each of the server-side programming languages among new sites? Shows percentages of usage for all server-side programming languages among sites that were first visited in the last month, because they have only recently entered the top 10 million sites.
  • Top Site Usage Report
    Which server-side programming languages are primarily used by high traffic sites? Shows for each server-side programming language the share of top sites among all the sites that use that specific server-side programming language.
  • Page Speed Report
    What is the average speed when loading pages of different server-side programming languages? Shows for each of the 15 server-side programming languages, for which we have at least 100 measurements, the average Time to First Byte (TTFB) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measurements, obtained from Google's Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX).
• PHP Reports
  • Historical Trend Report
    How did the popularity of PHP change from month to month? Shows tables and diagrams of monthly trends of usage for PHP since May 2010.
  • Version Usage Report
    Which are the most popular versions of PHP? Shows the distribution of PHP versions.
  • Cummulative Version Distribution Report
    Which percentage of sites use a newer version of PHP than some specific version? Shows the cummulative distribution of PHP versions.
  • Historical Version Trend Report
    How did the distribution of various versions of PHP change over time? Shows tables and diagrams of monthly trends in the usage of PHP versions.
  • Trend Analysis Report
    Which market segments contributed most to usage changes? Shows which geographical regions, identified by top level domain and content language, saw popularity gains or declines in the popularity of PHP in the last 12 months.
  • Page Speed Trends
    How did the average page speed of PHP sites change over time? Shows the monthly trend of average Time to First Byte (TTFB) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measurements of websites that use PHP since January 2023.
  • Usage Pattern Report
    On which part of websites is PHP being used? Shows the percentages of websites that use PHP on the home page, on inner pages only, or on subdomains only.
  • Change Report
    Which percentage of sites switched from another server-side programming language to PHP and vice versa? Shows the percentages of websites that recently changed between PHP and other server-side programming languages. It also shows examples of sites that made a change.
  • Ranking Breakdown Report
    Is the popularity of PHP higher among high traffic sites? Shows usage of PHP broken down by popularity ranges of the Alexa ranking, that is among the top 1 million sites, the top 100,000, the top 10,000 and the top 1,000 sites. Also shows the popularity rank of PHP among all server-side programming languages in these ranges and the most popular competing technology.
  • Market Position Report
    Where in the market diagram lies PHP? Shows the market position of PHP in terms of popularity and usage by high traffic sites, compared to the most popular server-side programming languages.
  • Multiple Server-side Programming Languages Usage Report
    How frequently are other server-side programming languages used together with PHP, and which ones? Shows statistics on the usage of PHP together with other server-side programming languages (if any). We identify here usage on the same site, not necessarily on the same page.

  • Cross-Technologies Breakdown and Segmentation Reports
    In which markets is PHP particularly strong and which one is the most popular competing technology in each market? A set of reports evaluating the combined usage of two categories of web technologies. This shows, for example, the usage of PHP on any top level domain compared to its usage on all websites and the most popular competing technology on each top level domain. Also shows the rank of PHP among all server-side programming languages for each top level domain, compared to its overall rank. Furthermore, this includes the ranking and percentages of all top level domains among all the sites that use PHP.

    These detailed reports are available not only for top level domains, but also for the usage of PHP broken down by

    • Content Management Systems
    • Client-side Programming Languages
    • JavaScript Libraries
    • CSS Frameworks
    • Web Servers
    • Web Panels
    • Operating Systems
    • Web Hosting Providers
    • Data Center Providers
    • Reverse Proxy Services
    • DNS Server Providers
    • Email Server Providers
    • SSL Certificate Authorities
    • JavaScript Content Delivery Networks
    • Traffic Analysis Tools
    • Advertising Networks
    • Tag Managers
    • Social Widgets
    • Site Elements
    • Structured Data Formats
    • Markup Languages
    • Character Encodings
    • Image File Formats
    • Top Level Domains
    • Server Locations
    • Content Languages
  • Geographical Distribution Report
    How popular is PHP in each country? Shows a colored world map indicating the usage percentage of PHP by country.
  • List of the 300 most popular sites using PHP including their usage of other server-side programming languages (if any).
  • List of up to 300 popular sites that started using PHP in the last month (if there are that many sites in a month), including the server-side programming languages they were using before (if any).
  • List of up to 300 popular sites that discontinued using PHP in the last month (if there are that many sites in a month), including the server-side programming languages they are using now (if any).

Please see technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys, and read our disclaimer to learn about possible incompleteness and inaccuracy of our data.

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