PHP vs Ruby

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 1,176,001

81,172

Germany 564,892

24,578

Japan 539,934

20,441

India 498,312

31,163

France 428,725

24,019

United Kingdom 420,015

31,238

Brazil 386,483

19,689

Italy 377,317

17,909

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 PHP sites · All Ruby sites