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.

20 of the 60 sites closest to PHP match.

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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

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

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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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   Raku® raku.org English No trackers

   Raku®

   The Raku® programming language.

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

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

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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

   0 say Node.js is a good alternative to PHP 0 say Node.js isn’t a real alternative to PHP

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5. 05
   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

   0 say CodeIgniter is a good alternative to PHP 0 say CodeIgniter 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

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

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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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    LZ4 lz4.org English No trackers

    LZ4 - Extremely fast compression

    Compression algorithm

    • Font Awesome
    • jQuery
    • Bootstrap
    • Fastly
    • GitHub Pages
    • OVHcloud DNS

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    AMP ampproject.org Top 1K English No trackers

    AMP - a web component framework to easily create user-first web experiences - amp.dev

    Whether you are a publisher, e-commerce company, storyteller, advertiser or email sender, AMP makes it easy to create great experiences on the web. Use AMP to build websites, stories, ads and emails.

    • Google Search Console
    • GlobalSign
    • Google Workspace
    • Netlify

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    TypeDoc typedoc.org English No trackers

    TypeDoc

    Documentation for TypeDoc

    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Fastly

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    docs.rs Top 10K English No trackers

    Docs.rs

    official documentation website for Rust libraries

    • Font Awesome
    • Google Search Console
    • Fastly
    • Mailgun
    • nginx
    • Amazon Route 53

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    web.dev Top 10K English No trackers

    web.dev

    Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.

    • Google Search Console
    • Google Cloud
    • Google Fonts

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    Lodash lodash.com English No trackers

    Lodash

    A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras.

    • Font Awesome
    • Google Search Console
    • jsDelivr
    • Lodash
    • Mailgun
    • Netlify

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    Suhosin suhosin.org English No trackers

    Suhosin PHP hardening project

    Open source patch for PHP

    • Fastly
    • GitHub Pages
    • Google Fonts
    • Hetzner DNS

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    Socket.IO socket.io English No trackers

    Socket.IO

    JavaScript library for realtime web applications

    • Algolia
    • Vercel

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    UnoCSS unocss.dev English No trackers

    UnoCSS: The instant on-demand Atomic CSS engine

    The instant on-demand Atomic CSS engine

    • Google Search Console
    • Netlify
    • NS1
    • Vue.js

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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.