PHP vs Python

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

Top sites by authority

PHP · Python · 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

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

United States 1,334,380

24,352

Germany 636,404

14,576

Japan 623,805

6,433

India 570,916

22,541

France 515,406

12,205

United Kingdom 482,093

10,983

Italy 440,575

8,907

Brazil 425,497

11,966

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 PHP sites · All Python sites