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 217,155

1,334,380

Germany 92,128

636,404

India 132,726

570,916

Japan 68,515

623,805

France 76,244

515,406

United Kingdom 90,170

482,093

Brazil 87,003

425,497

Italy 55,675

440,575

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 Node.js sites · All PHP sites