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 115,677

1,334,380

Germany 39,854

636,404

Japan 28,253

623,805

India 53,805

570,916

France 34,236

515,406

United Kingdom 39,030

482,093

Italy 30,224

440,575

Brazil 32,646

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 Java sites · All PHP sites