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PHP

Who runs PHP, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest programming language alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Python

Measured from PHP’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs PHP

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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: 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.

tracker that follows visitors

15 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found

Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- Matomo

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to PHP

Fewer trackers than PHP No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to PHP match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy 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.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 5 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,208
Vector: 384-d
Query: 70 ms

Built with

JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://www.php.net/cached.php?t=&f=/js/ext/jquery-3.6.0.min.js
CSS & UI: Font Awesome asset https://www.php.net/cached.php?t=&f=/fonts/Font-Awesome/css/fontello.css
Analytics: Matomo page source: _paq.push(
CDN: bunny.net header server: BunnyCDN-DE1-1328
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=O6K8miDfoyFI4IjIQ13207kl978tUNg1HYv3G-bLabo

Sitemaps

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.