Adobe Flash vs PHP

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Adobe Flash · PHP · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Adobe Flash · PHP · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 2,447

1,334,380

Germany 1,371

636,404

Japan 2,218

623,805

India 1,887

570,916

France 1,302

515,406

United Kingdom 999

482,093

Italy 1,140

440,575

Brazil 1,063

425,497

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Adobe Flash sites · All PHP sites