Java vs PHP

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

Top sites by authority

Java · 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

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

United States 104,685

1,176,001

Germany 34,304

564,892

Japan 24,189

539,934

India 47,632

498,312

France 28,165

428,725

United Kingdom 34,317

420,015

Brazil 29,569

386,483

Italy 26,104

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 Java sites · All PHP sites