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
173
Open Page Rank 8+
21
3,962
Open Page Rank 7+
77
22,035
Open Page Rank 6+
96
52,225
Open Page Rank 5+
106
109,076
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
7,766
1,176,001
Germany
1,968
564,892
Japan
1,538
539,934
India
2,740
498,312
France
1,670
428,725
United Kingdom
2,460
420,015
Brazil
1,671
386,483
Italy
1,452
377,317
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, 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.
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 |