Websites using PHP 5.x

Q: How does VersionDB detect PHP 5.x?

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

Q: How current is this data?

The figures on this page come from our September 2026 crawl. VersionDB runs a fresh crawl every month, and the database spans multiple monthly crawls.

Q: Can I download a list of PHP 5.x websites?

Yes. The Lead List Exporter lets you filter the 839,983 PHP 5.x sites by country, traffic and contact details, see the row count for free, and pay once for the rows you export. To try it first, the Free Lead List Exporter exports up to 10 matching domains at no cost, from a subset of our crawl.

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PHP 5.x companies in the United States

Every PHP 5.x website we detected in the United States.

Companies with personnel emails

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

Decision makers on LinkedIn

Sites with at least one personnel LinkedIn profile.

Top 100,000 PHP 5.x sites by traffic

Start with the highest-traffic end of the dataset.

Sites on a .com domain

Limit results to PHP 5.x websites on .com domains.

Companies with phone numbers

Only sites where an organisation phone number was found.

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Versions

Which PHP 5.x versions are most used?

We could read a version number on 95% of PHP 5.x sites. Of those, the most common are PHP 5.6.40, on 335,419 sites, PHP 5.3.29, on 77,803 sites and PHP 5.4.45, on 61,233 sites.

42% on v5.6.40

Versions detected: 188
Sites with a version: 795,569

Share of sites by version

v5.6.40 42% 335,419 v5.3.29 10% 77,803 v5.4.45 8% 61,233 v5.2.17 7% 53,462 v5.4.16 6% 49,955 v5.5.38 5% 36,409 v5.3.3 4% 29,697 v5.5.9 2% 17,249 v5.4.41 2% 14,885 v5.1.6 1% 10,598 v5.3.28 1% 8,402 v5.6.37 1% 6,572 v5.6.36 1% 6,244 v5.2.6 1% 6,035 v5.6.30 1% 5,902 v5.3.10 1% 5,614 v5.6.31 1% 4,528 v5.6.9 <1% 3,177 v5.6.38 <1% 3,002 v5.6.33 <1% 2,660 v5.6.39 <1% 2,101 v5.2.8 <1% 1,697 v5.3.2 <1% 1,667 v5.6.32 <1% 1,504 v5.6.27 <1% 1,309 v5.6.34 <1% 1,306 v5.2.4 <1% 1,282 v5.3.6 <1% 1,252 v5.3.8 <1% 1,215 v5.5.27 <1% 1,186 v5.2.0 <1% 1,159 v5.6.0 <1% 1,142 v5.3.27 <1% 1,127 v5.2.5 <1% 1,099 v5.2.14 <1% 1,078 v5.6.25 <1% 1,070 v5.2.9 <1% 990 v5.3.13 <1% 861 v5.2.10 <1% 843 v5.6.29 <1% 831 v5.6.24 <1% 754 v5.6.35 <1% 730 v5.4.9 <1% 678 v5.5.35 <1% 677 v5.6.17 <1% 675 v5.4.4 <1% 647 v5.5.30 <1% 640 v5.2.13 <1% 605 v5.6.28 <1% 575 v5.6.15 <1% 541 v5.2.11 <1% 531 v5.6.20 <1% 514 v5.5.12 <1% 475 v5.6.22 <1% 474 v5.5.16 <1% 461 v5.3.5 <1% 458 v5.6.23 <1% 432 v5.5.7 <1% 431 v5.2.12 <1% 411 v5.4.36 <1% 392 v5.3.23 <1% 375 v5.6.3 <1% 371 v5.3.21 <1% 356 v5.6.21 <1% 356 v5.6.19 <1% 353 v5.6.26 <1% 353 v5.6.11 <1% 343 v5.3.26 <1% 343 v5.5.31 <1% 337 v5.4.28 <1% 332 v5.6.16 <1% 331 v5.6.4 <1% 330 v5.5.21 <1% 325 v5.4.24 <1% 325 v5.4.1 <1% 322 v5.3.15 <1% 318 v5.6.14 <1% 317 v5.6.18 <1% 315 v5.3.18 <1% 313 v5.2.16 <1% 306 v5.4.35 <1% 294 v5.2.3 <1% 290 v5.5.37 <1% 288 v5.3.17 <1% 287 v5.5.6 <1% 285 v5.4.44 <1% 274 v5.4.37 <1% 263 v5.4.39 <1% 262 v5.3.14 <1% 261 v5.4.6 <1% 254 v5.3.20 <1% 242 v5.4.31 <1% 238 v5.4.27 <1% 236 v5.4.22 <1% 231 v5.6.13 <1% 225 v5.3.9 <1% 221 v5.5.18 <1% 215 v5.6.8 <1% 211 v5.6.1 <1% 205 v5.4.43 <1% 205 v5.4.30 <1% 197 v5.3.24 <1% 196 v5.3.19 <1% 196 v5.6.12 <1% 196 v5.4.20 <1% 195 v5.5.33 <1% 193 v5.5.3 <1% 193 v5.5.25 <1% 192 v5.4.40 <1% 190 v5.4.33 <1% 187 v5.4.7 <1% 185 v5.5.11 <1% 183 v5.5.26 <1% 175 v5.4.32 <1% 170 v5.4.14 <1% 170 v5.6.5 <1% 168 v5.4.38 <1% 166 v5.5.28 <1% 165 v5.0.4 <1% 162 v5.3.22 <1% 160 v5.5.17 <1% 158 v5.1.2 <1% 157 v5.4.13 <1% 155 v5.3.25 <1% 155 v5.5.15 <1% 154 v5.5.32 <1% 153 v5.6.6 <1% 152 v5.4.21 <1% 151 v5.4.23 <1% 145 v5.4.17 <1% 142 v5.3.16 <1% 139 v5.5.20 <1% 137 v5.3.1 <1% 136 v5.6.10 <1% 135 v5.2.1 <1% 134 v5.4.34 <1% 133 v5.4.26 <1% 132 v5.5.0 <1% 128 v5.4.19 <1% 128 v5.5.36 <1% 126 v5.4.3 <1% 114 v5.4.8 <1% 111 v5.4.11 <1% 110 v5.4.42 <1% 107 v5.5.19 <1% 106 v5.4.12 <1% 104 v5.6.7 <1% 103 v5.4.25 <1% 100 v5.5.23 <1% 99 v5.4.0 <1% 99 v5.5.14 <1% 94 v5.0.5 <1% 91 v5.5.10 <1% 88 v5.5.29 <1% 88 v5.3.0 <1% 85 v5.4.5 <1% 82 v5.1.4 <1% 75 v5.6.2 <1% 74 v5.5.34 <1% 74 v5.4.29 <1% 71 v5.3.4 <1% 69 v5.5.24 <1% 66 v5.5.22 <1% 65 v5.5.8 <1% 64 v5.3.7 <1% 56 v5.4.10 <1% 53 v5.5.13 <1% 51 v5.4.15 <1% 49 v5.2.2 <1% 48 v5.5.1 <1% 41 v5.0.2 <1% 39 v5.5.5 <1% 34 v5.2.15 <1% 32 v5.5.4 <1% 28 v5 (exact) <1% 27 v5.0.3 <1% 17 v5.5.2 <1% 16 v5.3.11 <1% 14 v5.1.1 <1% 11 v5.0.1 <1% 9 v5.3.12 <1% 8 v5.1.5 <1% 8 v5.2.7 <1% 8 v5.4.2 <1% 7 v5.4.18 <1% 6 v5.0.0 <1% 3 v5.1.3 <1% 1 v5.1.0 <1% 1

Live Websites

Websites Using PHP 5.x

A sample of live PHP 5.x sites from our latest crawl, with the other technologies each one runs.

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Domain	Also runs	Crawl Date
m-snap.jp	jQuery Apache HTTP Server Google Analytics reCAPTCHA Ubuntu	September 28, 2026
lukasn.ru	jQuery Nginx OWL Carousel jQuery UI FancyBox	September 27, 2026
loveplus-esthe.com	jQuery Nginx Bootstrap Cloudflare Google Analytics	September 27, 2026
losparches.com	jQuery MySQL Nginx jQuery Migrate Bootstrap	September 27, 2026
livex.tv	jQuery jQuery Migrate Bootstrap Cloudflare Google Analytics	September 27, 2026
liscashop.bg	jQuery HTTP/3 Cloudflare Google Analytics LiteSpeed	September 27, 2026
lehelfilmszinhaz.hu	jQuery Apache HTTP Server Bootstrap Google Hosted Libraries Lightbox	September 27, 2026
le-boxon-de-lex.fr	jQuery MySQL WordPress jQuery Migrate Apache HTTP Server	September 27, 2026
lbt.lviv.ua	jQuery MySQL WordPress Nginx jQuery Migrate	September 27, 2026
lamaisondupastel.com	jQuery jQuery Migrate Apache HTTP Server Google Hosted Libraries jQuery UI	September 27, 2026

How many websites use PHP 5.x?

We found PHP 5.x on 839,983 websites in our September 2026 crawl, across 206 countries.

Which countries use PHP 5.x the most?

By number of websites, the top countries are United States (13%, 107,875 sites), Russia (12%, 100,574 sites), Japan (11%, 96,418 sites), France (8%, 64,617 sites) and Germany (6%, 50,590 sites). Together they account for 50% of the 839,983 PHP 5.x sites we track. 21% of the sites are in English, and .com is the most used domain ending, on 40% of them.

Where are PHP 5.x websites hosted?

The networks carrying the most PHP 5.x sites are OVH SAS (69,357 sites), GMO Internet, Inc. (38,238 sites) and Beget LLC (32,404 sites).

What technologies are used with PHP 5.x?

Across the 839,983 PHP 5.x sites we track, the technologies most often found alongside it are jQuery (73%, 609,928 sites), Apache HTTP Server (54%, 455,986 sites), Nginx (28%, 236,429 sites), MySQL (25%, 210,339 sites) and WordPress (24%, 198,694 sites).

Deep Dive

Breakdown of PHP 5.x websites

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

Technology	Sites
jQuery	609,928
Apache HTTP Server	455,986
Nginx	236,429
MySQL	210,339
WordPress	198,694
Bootstrap	194,413
jQuery Migrate	189,319
Google Analytics	115,155
Google Hosted Libraries	94,918
jQuery UI	80,750
Contact Form 7	77,702
OpenSSL	74,544
HTTP/3	70,077
LiteSpeed	67,674
Cloudflare	67,357
Lightbox	63,867
Modernizr	62,940
OWL Carousel	60,447
CentOS	57,087
YouTube	50,399
reCAPTCHA	48,642
HSTS	45,665
FancyBox	44,603
UNIX	44,165
Slick	43,544

Language	Sites
English	174,853
Russian	104,538
Chinese	90,358
Japanese	90,301
French	57,941
German	42,862
Spanish	23,252
Italian	19,657
Dutch	18,407
Turkish	17,129
Portuguese	16,459
Korean	16,449
Vietnamese	12,876
Polish	11,630
Latin	11,392
Czech	10,665
Hungarian	6,709
Danish	5,816
Romanian	4,444
Ukrainian	4,328
Afrikaans	4,101
Swedish	4,040
Tagalog	3,817
Indonesian	3,527
Thai	3,173

ASN	Sites
OVH SAS	69,357
GMO Internet, Inc.	38,238
Beget LLC	32,404
Cloudflare, Inc.	32,275
GoDaddy.com, LLC	25,651
SAKURA Internet Inc.	21,921
Hetzner Online GmbH	18,958
Amazon.com, Inc.	17,758
Strato GmbH	15,190
Hangzhou Alibaba Advertising Co.,Ltd.	14,872
IDC Frontier Inc.	11,650
IONOS SE	11,038
Eonix Corporation	10,940
Jsc ru-center	9,950
Domain names registrar REG.RU, Ltd	9,278
Hostinger International Limited	8,903
Data Communication Business Group	8,864
Host Europe GmbH	8,199
JSC RTComm.RU	7,670
Your Hosting B.V.	5,958
Akamai Connected Cloud	5,945
Namecheap, Inc.	5,831
ASLINE LIMITED	5,819
New Century InfoComm Tech Co., Ltd.	5,673
DigitalOcean, LLC	5,600

TLD	Sites
com	333,094
ru	83,115
de	34,685
jp	32,807
net	29,278
fr	25,594
org	22,049
cn	18,360
nl	16,527
uk	15,245
it	11,926
pl	11,176
br	11,115
cz	11,090
kr	10,352
ua	8,587
au	7,950
tw	7,406
vn	6,914
hu	6,764
eu	6,425
info	6,027
xn--p1ai	5,896
dk	5,865
by	5,294

Country	Sites
🇺🇸 United States	107,875
🇷🇺 Russia	100,574
🇯🇵 Japan	96,418
🇫🇷 France	64,617
🇩🇪 Germany	50,590
🇨🇳 China	38,686
Unknown	26,922
🇳🇱 Netherlands	25,134
🇹🇼 Taiwan	22,513
🇬🇧 United Kingdom	21,685
🇰🇷 South Korea	20,222
🇹🇷 Turkey	18,369
🇮🇹 Italy	16,839
🇻🇳 Vietnam	13,812
🇪🇸 Spain	13,426
🇨🇿 Czech Republic	13,346
🇵🇱 Poland	13,132
🇭🇰 Hong Kong	12,655
🇧🇷 Brazil	12,019
🇦🇺 Australia	10,684
🇺🇦 Ukraine	10,396
🇨🇦 Canada	10,274
🇭🇺 Hungary	7,400
🇩🇰 Denmark	6,252
🇧🇾 Belarus	5,862

FAQ

Answers drawn from our latest crawl of PHP 5.x websites. Anything else, email us and we will look it up.

How does VersionDB detect PHP 5.x?

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

How current is this data?

Can I download a list of PHP 5.x websites?