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+
175
0
Open Page Rank 8+
3,942
2
Open Page Rank 7+
21,829
2
Open Page Rank 6+
51,618
2
Open Page Rank 5+
107,665
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
1,143,659
537
Germany
552,961
220
Japan
532,606
144
India
489,213
250
France
433,940
208
United Kingdom
415,974
243
Italy
392,415
172
Brazil
373,280
218
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 | 1000 ms | 800 ms |
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.
Rust to PHP
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| soltyk.ru | Jun 2026 |