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 3,891

1,143,659

Germany 2,400

552,961

Japan 1,581

532,606

India 2,759

489,213

France 1,819

433,940

United Kingdom 2,016

415,974

Italy 1,608

392,415

Brazil 1,413

373,280

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 Perl sites · All PHP sites