PHP vs XSLT
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
PHP · XSLT · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
177
1
Open Page Rank 8+
3,999
3
Open Page Rank 7+
22,317
10
Open Page Rank 6+
52,959
27
Open Page Rank 5+
110,685
73
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
PHP · XSLT · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,334,380
39
Germany
636,404
1,232
Japan
623,805
5
India
570,916
30
France
515,406
37
United Kingdom
482,093
21
Italy
440,575
31
Brazil
425,497
8
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | PHP | XSLT |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 500 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
PHP to XSLT
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| gardentreenursery.com | Dec 2025 |
XSLT to PHP
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| livadiakazan.ru | Jul 2025 |