Elixir vs PHP

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

Top sites by authority

Elixir · 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

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

United States 795

1,143,659

Germany 333

552,961

Japan 166

532,606

India 388

489,213

France 293

433,940

United Kingdom 419

415,974

Italy 243

392,415

Brazil 258

373,280

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, 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.

Sites that switched

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

All Elixir sites · All PHP sites