PHP's latest statistics are released: with a market share of 77.2%, it is still the 'preferred programming language” for websites

IT House reported on September 11 that Timo Tijhof, chief engineer of the Wikimedia Foundation, recently published an article revealing the usage data of the PHP language and emphasizing the role of the PHP language on the Internet. IT House compiled the relevant content as follows :

PHP remains the programming language of choice

Timo Tijhof excerpted this from the "Analysis of Programming Languages ​​Used by the Top 10 Million Websites in the World (As of 2023.8)" published by W3 Techs Results, among which:

• PHP accounts for 77.2%

• ASP accounts for 6.9%

• Ruby accounts for 5.4%

Content management framework based on PHP

Most public websites It is built using a PHP-based CMS. 8 of the top 12 CMS software are written in PHP. Also based on the above analysis results of W3 Techs, each percentage point represents 100,000 websites among the top 10 million websites.

• [PHP] WordPress Ecosystem (63%)

• [Ruby] Shopify

• Wix

• Squarespace

• [PHP] Joomla Ecosystem (3%)

• [ PHP] Drupal Ecosystem (2%)

• [PHP] Adobe Magento (2%)

• [PHP] PrestaShop (1%)

• [Python] Google Blogger

• [PHP] Bitrix (1%)

• ##[PHP ] OpenCart (1%)

• [PHP] TYPO3 (1%)

The application of PHP in the field of e-commerce

According to the BuiltWith report on online stores in August 2023, it can be seen that PHP still occupies a "dominant position" in the field of e-commerce:

• WordPress website using WooCommerce plug-in (24% global market share)

• Adobe Magento (7% global market share)

• OpenCart (global market share 2%, Russian market share 24%)

• PrestaShop (global market share 2%, French market share 14%)

• Shopware (global market share 1%, German market share 12%)

Timo Tijhof also quoted Ars Technica’s chart Data, believing that "PHP still maintains a huge lead."

Application of PHP in large-scale scenarios

Keith Adams, chief architect of Slack, said that most of Slack’s server-side application logic is written in PHP. Relative to PHP's advantages (lower error costs through fault isolation; safe concurrency; and high throughput), its problems are negligible.

Vimeo engineers say Vimeo’s continued success with PHP proves that PHP is a great tool for fast-growing companies in 2020.

Timo Tijhof also concluded from a report by W3 Techs that among companies with relatively single businesses, the largest is WordPress, which drives Automattic’s WordPress.com. 20 billion PV per month (Alexa global ranking 55).

Taking a closer look at the entries accounting for 0.1% of the market share, we can see that a large number of websites are supported by the PHP system, and PHP is still the preferred framework for more than 100,000 small websites.

• #23 CMS: Moodle

• #25 CMS: phpBB, such as Google's Waze community, ApacheFriends forum, VideoLAN forum

• #31 CMS: XenForo forum, such as ArsTechnica.com and MacRumors.com

• #33 CMS: Roundcube

• #45 CMS: MediaWiki

• # 49 CMS: vBulletin Forum

• #53 CMS: IPS communities such as MalwareBytes.com, BleepingComputer and Squarespace.com Forum

MediaWiki drives Wikipedia and a large number of third-party encyclopedias, with 25 billion PVs per month (ranked 12 by Alexa). MediaWiki also drives Fandom (2 billion PVs per month, ranked 44 by Similarweb) and WikiHow (100 million visits per month) (, Alexa Rank 215).

In addition, there are a large number of Internet companies adopting PHP technology stack, such as Facebook (Alexa ranking 7), Etsy (Alexa ranking 66), Vimeo (Alexa ranking 165) and Slack (Similarweb ranking 362).

Accordingly, Timo Tijhof believes that PHP still has unique advantages. "It has a huge productivity community, active developers, easy to learn, and easy to expand." Therefore, it still has an unshakable position today. .