Perl vs PHP

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

Top sites by authority

Perl · 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

Perl · PHP · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 3,877

1,176,001

Germany 2,418

564,892

Japan 1,600

539,934

India 2,758

498,312

France 1,737

428,725

United Kingdom 2,010

420,015

Brazil 1,404

386,483

Italy 1,579

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 Perl sites · All PHP sites