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 816

1,334,380

Germany 385

636,404

Japan 185

623,805

India 397

570,916

France 330

515,406

United Kingdom 467

482,093

Italy 268

440,575

Brazil 292

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 Elixir sites · All PHP sites