PHP vs Rust
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
PHP · Rust · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
177
0
Open Page Rank 8+
3,999
2
Open Page Rank 7+
22,317
2
Open Page Rank 6+
52,959
2
Open Page Rank 5+
110,685
3
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
PHP · Rust · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,334,380
623
Germany
636,404
256
Japan
623,805
169
India
570,916
301
France
515,406
231
United Kingdom
482,093
281
Italy
440,575
199
Brazil
425,497
250
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | PHP | Rust |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 800 ms |
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.