CFML vs PHP
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
CFML · PHP · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
12
177
Open Page Rank 8+
107
3,999
Open Page Rank 7+
176
22,317
Open Page Rank 6+
257
52,959
Open Page Rank 5+
342
110,685
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
CFML · PHP · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,835
1,334,380
Germany
518
636,404
Japan
382
623,805
India
738
570,916
France
497
515,406
United Kingdom
704
482,093
Italy
456
440,575
Brazil
380
425,497
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | CFML | PHP |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 2 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 900 ms |
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.