What is PHP's global share in 2019? A survey from W3Techs

PHP has always been criticized, especially in order to promote training in languages ​​​​such as python and java, some training institutions always create some programming language rankings to mislead programming beginners and give them the impression that PHP is no longer good. Is PHP really in decline? What is the market share of the PHP language?

Want to take a look at the latest usage statistics and market positioning of PHP based on the data and reports provided by W3Techs. W3Techs is a foreign website that specializes in investigating Web technologies and provides information on the use of various Web technologies.

Source address: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_language

The above are statistics provided by W3Techs on December 6, 2019 data.

Yes, you read that right! PHP accounts for 78.9% of the programming languages ​​used on WEB website servers, ranking first! Leave ASP.NET in second place and JAVA in third place far behind.

Then someone started to argue again. Your statistics are only for one month, which is not representative. Then let’s take a look at the situation in the last year.

(WEB server-side programming language usage statistics)

(line chart format)

We can see from the above picture that PHP language has basically remained stable at 79% among WEB server-side languages, ASP.NET has declined slightly, and Java has increased slightly.

In short:

PHP is the best language in the world, bar none! It’s not a joke, nor is it groundless. PHP is a free and open source website server-side development language that is most used in the world for WEB development, has the best ecology, and has the lowest maintenance cost. Therefore, PHP is definitely the first choice for website programming development. PHP also has the shortest learning cycle and the easiest way to get started. It is a programming language that does not require certain academic qualifications like Java, Python, .NET, etc. It is also the best language to find a job.

Let’s take a look at which well-known websites use PHP language.

All websites using PHP

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Smzdm

Asus

Nba

Pulzo

Getpocket

Popular websites partially using PHP

Facebook

Wikipedia

Vk

WordPress

Pinterest

Ettoday

Instructure

Tencent

Sina

Baidu Tieba

NetEase

360

Baby Tree

So when we learn PHP, which version should we learn?

Let’s take a look at the specific statistics:

As can be seen from the figure, PHP 5 and PHP 7 are currently mainstream. Especially PHP 5, it has the momentum to fight for a few more years. As for PHP 4 and 3, it can be said that it has been abandoned.

Starting from PHP7, the performance has been qualitatively improved! The latest version, PHP7.4, was also announced at the end of November. For details, please refer to "PHP 7.4.0 has just been released!" Let’s take a look at the new features》.

PHP8 will also be released soon. Each new version is another step towards a better PHP. By then, PHP will go even further!