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Websites using PHP

PHP is a general-purpose scripting language used for web development.

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Every PHP website we detected in the United States.

Only sites where a personal, company-hosted email was found.

Sites with at least one personnel LinkedIn profile.

Start with the highest-traffic end of the dataset.

Limit results to PHP websites on .com domains.

Only sites where an organisation phone number was found.

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Versions

Which PHP versions are most used?

We could read a version number on 38% of PHP sites. Of those, the most common are PHP 8, on 5,029,921 sites, PHP 7, on 2,436,737 sites and PHP 5, on 839,983 sites.

60% on v8
Versions detected
4
Sites with a version
8,322,917
Share of sites by version
v8 60% v7 29% v5 10% v4 <1%

How many websites use PHP?

We found PHP on 22,034,795 websites in our September 2026 crawl, across 236 countries.

Which countries use PHP the most?

By number of websites, the top countries are United States (16%, 3,452,998 sites), Germany (11%, 2,394,266 sites), Japan (7%, 1,441,819 sites), France (6%, 1,290,695 sites) and United Kingdom (4%, 839,765 sites). Together they account for 43% of the 22,034,795 PHP sites we track. 36% of the sites are in English, and .com is the most used domain ending, on 42% of them.

Where are PHP websites hosted?

The networks carrying the most PHP sites are Cloudflare, Inc. (2,137,157 sites), Hostinger International Limited (1,618,532 sites) and OVH SAS (1,003,531 sites).

What technologies are used with PHP?

Across the 22,034,795 PHP sites we track, the technologies most often found alongside it are jQuery (81%, 17,957,042 sites), MySQL (76%, 16,649,776 sites), WordPress (73%, 16,039,462 sites), jQuery Migrate (56%, 12,275,580 sites) and Apache HTTP Server (33%, 7,207,422 sites).

Deep Dive

Breakdown of PHP websites

What else they run, plus their language, hosting network, domain extension and country.

TechnologySites
jQuery17,957,042
MySQL16,649,776
WordPress16,039,462
jQuery Migrate12,275,580
Apache HTTP Server7,207,422
HTTP/36,901,133
Nginx5,871,929
Google Analytics5,784,153
Yoast SEO5,296,701
Elementor4,765,966
Bootstrap4,717,454
Cloudflare4,344,129
Contact Form 74,334,293
LiteSpeed4,195,167
WordPress Block Editor3,847,843
HSTS3,249,895
imagesLoaded2,860,927
reCAPTCHA2,767,668
Google Tag Manager2,634,040
Site Kit2,453,537
LiteSpeed Cache2,412,839
Swiper2,298,656
WooCommerce2,147,347
Magnific Popup1,888,005
Slick1,836,404
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Other technologies in Programming languages

Programming languages technologies run on 48.66% of the websites we track. PHP ranks #1 of 26, on 88.93% of Programming languages sites.

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FAQ

Answers drawn from our latest crawl of PHP websites. Anything else, email us and we will look it up.

Through our own crawl, which checks each site's HTML, scripts and headers rather than relying on self-reported data.