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+
173
0
Open Page Rank 8+
3,962
2
Open Page Rank 7+
22,035
2
Open Page Rank 6+
52,225
2
Open Page Rank 5+
109,076
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
1,176,001
532
Germany
564,892
225
Japan
539,934
148
India
498,312
258
France
428,725
206
United Kingdom
420,015
247
Brazil
386,483
221
Italy
377,317
170
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 | 900 ms |
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.
Rust to PHP
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| soltyk.ru | Jun 2026 |