PHP

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs PHP

PHP php.net

PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

Wikidata: scripting language focused on web development

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

Not in the Internet Archive

Audience

Top 1K In English

02 · Privacy

What PHP tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

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   Python python.org Top 1K English No trackers

   Welcome to Python.org

   The official home of the Python Programming Language

   • Font Awesome
   • Google Search Console
   • jQuery
   • Fastly
   • GlobalSign
   • Google Workspace

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   ruby-lang.org No trackers

   Ruby Programming Language

   general-purpose programming language

   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Fastly
   • GitHub Pages
   • Google Workspace

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   Lua lua.org Top 10K No trackers

   The Programming Language Lua

   Official website of the Lua language

   • nginx

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   Swift swift.org English No trackers

   Swift Programming Language

   Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

   • Google Search Console

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   Go go.dev Top 10K English 1 tracker

   The Go Programming Language

   Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.

   • Google Search Console
   • jQuery
   • Google Cloud
   • Google Cloud DNS
   • Google Fonts
   • Google Tag Manager

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   Raku® raku.org English No trackers

   Raku®

   The Raku® programming language.

   • Google Search Console
   • cdnjs
   • Cloudflare
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • htmx
   • jsDelivr

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   rust-lang.org English 1 tracker

   Rust Programming Language

   A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

   • Google Search Console
   • Fastly
   • GitHub Pages
   • Google Workspace
   • Mailchimp
   • Mailgun

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   tcl-lang.org No trackers

   Tcl Developer Site

   scripting language

   • Cloudflare
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Cloudflare Web Analytics

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   Perl perl.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

   The Perl Programming Language - www.perl.org

   The Perl Programming Language at Perl.org. Links and other helpful resources for new and experienced Perl programmers.

   • Google Search Console
   • Bootstrap
   • Fastly
   • GlobalSign
   • Google Analytics
   • Google Fonts

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    Node.js nodejs.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Node.js — Run JavaScript Everywhere

    Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

    • Google Search Console
    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Google Workspace
    • Next.js
    • React

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    JSDoc jsdoc.app English No trackers

    Use JSDoc: Index

    Official documentation for JSDoc.

    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS

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    PostgreSQL postgresql.org Top 10K English No trackers

    PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database

    The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database

    • Font Awesome
    • Google Search Console
    • nginx

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    CodeIgniter codeigniter.com English No trackers

    Welcome to CodeIgniter

    The small framework with powerful features

    • Google Search Console
    • jQuery
    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Cloudflare Web Analytics

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    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

    • Google Search Console
    • Amazon SES
    • Atlassian
    • Fastly
    • GlobalSign
    • Mailchimp

    0 say Drupal is a good alternative to PHP 0 say Drupal isn’t a real alternative to PHP

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    Svelte svelte.dev English No trackers

    Svelte • Web development for the rest of us

    Web development for the rest of us

    • Google Search Console
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Fastmail
    • SvelteKit
    • Vercel

    0 say Svelte is a good alternative to PHP 0 say Svelte isn’t a real alternative to PHP

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    Angular angular.dev English No trackers

    Home • Angular

    The web development framework for building modern apps.

    • Google Search Console
    • Angular
    • AngularJS
    • Fastly
    • Google Cloud DNS
    • Google Fonts

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    React react.dev English 1 tracker

    React

    React is the library for web and native user interfaces. Build user interfaces out of individual pieces called components written in JavaScript. React is designed to let you seamlessly combine components written by independent people, teams, and organizations.

    • Google Search Console
    • Algolia
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Google Analytics
    • Next.js
    • React

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    Symfony symfony.com English No trackers

    Symfony, High Performance PHP Framework for Web Development

    Symfony is a web framework and a set of reusable PHP packages to build web applications, APIs, microservices and CLI apps.

    • Google Search Console
    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Cloudflare Web Analytics
    • Google Workspace
    • Microsoft 365

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    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English No trackers

    MediaWiki

    free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation

    • Google Search Console

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    sqlite.org Top 10K No trackers

    SQLite Home Page

    serverless relational database management system (RDBMS)

    • Google Workspace

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles PHP’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones PHP uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what PHP adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.