GraphQL vs PHP

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

Top sites by authority

GraphQL · 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

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

United States 24,763

1,176,001

Germany 10,392

564,892

Japan 3,427

539,934

India 6,068

498,312

France 5,326

428,725

United Kingdom 6,327

420,015

Brazil 3,779

386,483

Italy 3,651

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 GraphQL sites · All PHP sites