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 774

1,176,001

Germany 331

564,892

Japan 162

539,934

India 381

498,312

France 291

428,725

United Kingdom 467

420,015

Brazil 264

386,483

Italy 233

377,317

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, 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.

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