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+
11
175
Open Page Rank 8+
102
3,942
Open Page Rank 7+
175
21,829
Open Page Rank 6+
253
51,618
Open Page Rank 5+
339
107,665
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
1,667
1,143,659
Germany
441
552,961
Japan
315
532,606
India
650
489,213
France
395
433,940
United Kingdom
634
415,974
Italy
399
392,415
Brazil
357
373,280
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, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.