Node.js vs PHP

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

Top sites by authority

Node.js · 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

Node.js · PHP · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 215,999

1,143,659

Germany 86,911

552,961

India 135,612

489,213

Japan 62,688

532,606

France 70,777

433,940

United Kingdom 87,274

415,974

Brazil 88,226

373,280

Italy 53,392

392,415

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, 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.

All Node.js sites · All PHP sites