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Server-side scripting language that powers WordPress, Laravel, and a large slice of the dynamic web.

Sites using PHP
984,174
973,903 found by StackScope, 10,271 via launch platforms
Last 30 days
15.6%
of new sites, to Oct 18
-2.9 pts on the 30 days before
Last 7 days
15.6%
of new sites, 7-day average
+0.4 pts on the week before
Rank in Programming Language
#1
of 5 tools, all time
Found via
  • StackScope Wider Web 951,527
  • StackScope Discovery (Indie) 22,376
  • Product Hunt 8,899
  • PeerPush 725
  • Other 465
  • Hacker News 182
In our data since Apr 2026
Last seen Oct 19, 2026
Most recent launch Nearwise · Edmonton Crime Map & Canadian City News, Oct 19, 2026
Website php.net
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What we found

  1. About 1 in 6 websites that went live in the last 30 days were built with PHP (15.6%).[1]
  2. Among product launches it is closer to 1 in 11.
  3. Six in ten new PHP sites also use jQuery.

Share of new sites using PHP

0% 10% 20% 30% Apr Jun Aug Oct [2] [3]

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use PHP, day by day for the last 90 days and weekly before that (left of the dashed line). The shaded areas were measured against a different set of sites, so the line can step there without PHP itself changing.[2][3]

What runs on PHP

Built on PHP
WordPress 75% Laravel 5.7% Joomla 0.3% OpenCart 0.2% Drupal 0.2%
and 74 more
PbootCMS 0.2% PrestaShop 0.1% Yii 0.1% Gnuboard <0.1% Open Journal Systems <0.1% CodeIgniter <0.1% Magento <0.1% Moodle <0.1% TYPO3 <0.1% ThinkPHP <0.1% Z-BlogPHP <0.1% MediaWiki <0.1% XenForo <0.1% PHP Debug Bar <0.1% Zen Cart <0.1% Shopware <0.1% WHMCS <0.1% Grav CMS <0.1% CakePHP <0.1% Concrete CMS <0.1% Craft CMS <0.1% Contao <0.1% Rhymix <0.1% MyAAC <0.1% DataLife Engine <0.1% Nette Framework <0.1% ProcessWire <0.1% Flarum <0.1% Discuz! <0.1% phpBB <0.1% Symfony <0.1% 1C-Bitrix <0.1% Typecho <0.1% MODX <0.1% SPIP <0.1% DokuWiki <0.1% MyBB <0.1% vBulletin <0.1% Osclass <0.1% WebEngine <0.1% Roundcube <0.1% SilverStripe <0.1% Piwigo <0.1% CS-Cart <0.1% Question2Answer <0.1% Sngine <0.1% Bludit <0.1% Invision Community <0.1% bramus/router <0.1% DESTOON <0.1%

Showing the next 50 by sites.

Percentages are the all-time share of PHP sites that also use each one.

Who uses PHP

Kind of site 225,310 sites with a known type, all time
TypeSitesShareBar
E-commerce 51,742 23.0%
Health 39,076 17.3%
Education 21,419 9.5%
Finance 18,936 8.4%
Marketing 17,436 7.7%
Content 16,389 7.3%
Productivity 12,114 5.4%
Games 11,931 5.3%
Developer Tools 9,952 4.4%
Social 9,075 4.0%
Design 5,471 2.4%
Hiring & HR 4,242 1.9%
AI 3,613 1.6%
Directory 2,472 1.1%
Crypto 1,442 0.6%
Country[4] likely for 201,636 of 984,174 sites (20.5%)
CountrySitesShareBar
India 32,042 15.9%
France 29,955 14.9%
United Kingdom 27,040 13.4%
Japan 20,722 10.3%
United States 15,719 7.8%
Canada 8,806 4.4%
Australia 6,208 3.1%
Brazil 5,647 2.8%
Germany 5,498 2.7%
Sweden 4,174 2.1%
Switzerland 3,914 1.9%
Poland 3,859 1.9%
Italy 3,741 1.9%
Vietnam 3,239 1.6%
Spain 3,030 1.5%
Domain ending 983,321 sites, all time
EndingSitesShareBar
.com 597,920 60.8%
.in 49,122 5.0%
.online 45,472 4.6%
.org 36,231 3.7%
.uk 30,526 3.1%
.fr 29,768 3.0%
.site 24,255 2.5%
.net 19,992 2.0%
.ca 13,175 1.3%
.store 12,544 1.3%
.co 10,212 1.0%
.xyz 8,484 0.9%
.blog 6,245 0.6%
.au 6,081 0.6%
.ch 5,891 0.6%
Green hosting[5] 10,259 checked sites since Apr 2026
SitesGreenBar
Using PHP 67%
Every new site we checked 47%

Programming Language on new sites

# Movement Tool Share of all sites Share of category[6] Bar
1 – PHP 16.5% 97.4%
2 – Python 0.3% 1.7%
3 – Java 0.2% 0.9%
4 ▲1 Haskell <0.1% <0.1%
5 ▼1 Bun <0.1% <0.1%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Programming Language tool. All 5 in Programming Language

Often used with PHP

Tool Sites with both vs all new sites Bar
jQuery 588,424 4.2x
Font Awesome 248,467 3.8x
LiteSpeed Web Server 231,595 3.5x
Hostinger 258,667 3.0x

Tools that turn up far more often on PHP sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.

Recent launches using PHP

32,647 of the 984,174 sites using PHP are product launches we list individually. The other 951,527 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one. They are included in the StackScope API and in Stackdar alerts.

Site Found Also detected
Nearwise · Edmonton Crime Map & Canadian City News nearwise.ca · Canada Oct 19 Laravel Alpine.js Bunny CDN Bunny Fonts
Atenzium · Pedidos por WhatsApp y QR para tu establecimiento atenzium.com Oct 19 A2 Hosting LiteSpeed Web Server WordPress
Mon coach · Coaching app for personal trainers, gyms and studios moncoachapp.com · Health Oct 19 Laravel Alpine.js Cloudflare Tailwind CSS
Barberías cerca de ti | Reserva tu cita en línea barbersoft.app Oct 19 Hostinger
StocksXray: free stock research, X-Ray scores and fair value stocksxray.com · Finance Oct 19 Google Fonts Namecheap DNS Namecheap Email Forwarding nginx
PotLuck Inventory | Menu boards, live menus and inventory sync for dispensaries potluckinventory.online Oct 19 Apache GoDaddy
Ondamu — 가장 편안한 곳에서 마주하는 내면의 목소리 ondamu.com · South Korea Oct 19 Next.js React Apache CentOS
TheMCSource — Your next adventure starts here themcsource.com · Games Oct 19 Cloudflare Vite
sotojinji｜いいチームにしよう。自分たちのやり方で。 sotojinji.com · Japan Oct 19 Apple Domain Verification Apple iCloud Mail GMO Server Google Workspace
ReleasedModels - every AI model release, tracked releasedmodels.com Oct 19 Bootstrap Chart.js Hostinger jsDelivr
SwarmSMS – Turn your Android phones into an SMS gateway for WordPress swarmsms.com · Marketing · Australia Oct 19 jQuery Astra flatpickr js-cookie
One Rep Max Calculator (1RM) | Free Strength & Training Tools onerepcalculator.com · Health · Canada Oct 19 LiteSpeed Web Server

Showing the most recent 12 of 32,647.

The StackScope API serves all 984,174 sites using PHP, filterable and exportable, from £15 a month.

Notes

  1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
  2. Grey: before 8 July 2026, we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well, so the share is measured against a much larger set of sites. For one continuous measure, view launch platforms only.
  3. Amber: 8 July to 10 September 2026, before we improved our infrastructure to index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live. Sites found that early often haven't finished setting up, so anything usually added after launch reads lower from 10 September. We record each site as it was when we found it.
  4. Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.
  5. Green hosting is the share whose web host The Green Web Foundation lists as running on green energy, among sites checked since 1 April 2026, against the same share for every new site we checked over that time. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
  6. Some products people expect to see here are filed under a related category: Backend Framework.

How this page is made

StackScope looks at each new website near the day it goes live and records what it was built with. We do not go back later, so these figures describe what sites launch with, not what they run today. A site counts towards PHP when we detect PHP on it at that look.

Every share on this page is a proportion of the new sites we were tracking at the time. Sites we found across the wider web count towards the figures, but only product launches are listed by name. How StackScope detects technologies · How StackScope Discovery works

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