Lua vs PHP
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Lua · PHP · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
175
Open Page Rank 8+
9
3,942
Open Page Rank 7+
57
21,829
Open Page Rank 6+
75
51,618
Open Page Rank 5+
84
107,665
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Lua · PHP · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
7,617
1,143,659
Germany
1,917
552,961
Japan
1,513
532,606
India
2,676
489,213
France
1,669
433,940
United Kingdom
2,471
415,974
Italy
1,480
392,415
Brazil
1,663
373,280
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Lua | PHP |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1000 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 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.
Lua to PHP
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| yts.vg | Jul 2026 |
| miramid.sk | May 2026 |
| honest.sk | May 2026 |
| thestandom.com | Feb 2026 |
| ahmedabadcitypolice.org | Oct 2025 |