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
173
Open Page Rank 8+
102
3,962
Open Page Rank 7+
175
22,035
Open Page Rank 6+
255
52,225
Open Page Rank 5+
339
109,076
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
1,672
1,176,001
Germany
450
564,892
Japan
318
539,934
India
652
498,312
France
400
428,725
United Kingdom
627
420,015
Brazil
362
386,483
Italy
372
377,317
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 | 1000 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.