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 1,143,659

81,570

Germany 552,961

24,686

Japan 532,606

20,589

India 489,213

31,121

France 433,940

24,562

United Kingdom 415,974

32,043

Italy 392,415

18,830

Brazil 373,280

19,566

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 PHP sites · All Ruby sites