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 209,464

1,176,001

Germany 86,344

564,892

India 130,321

498,312

Japan 61,829

539,934

United Kingdom 84,833

420,015

France 68,813

428,725

Brazil 85,848

386,483

Italy 51,055

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 Node.js sites · All PHP sites