Go vs PHP
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Go · PHP · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
177
Open Page Rank 8+
10
3,999
Open Page Rank 7+
31
22,317
Open Page Rank 6+
42
52,959
Open Page Rank 5+
55
110,685
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Go · PHP · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,297
1,334,380
Germany
711
636,404
Japan
367
623,805
India
749
570,916
France
611
515,406
United Kingdom
625
482,093
Italy
474
440,575
Brazil
630
425,497
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Go | PHP |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 900 ms |
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.
Go to PHP
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| semprenovos.com.br | Jan 2026 |
PHP to Go
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| mtnsyr.com | Feb 2026 |
| citron-emu.org | Nov 2025 |