As of October 8, 2026, PHP is used by 13,444,051 websites in the TechLeads index: 78.9% of all Programming languages detections, the 1st most-used of 27 Programming languages technologies.
13,444,051
websites using PHP
78.9%
share of Programming languages
#1
of 27 in Programming languages
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TechLeads. "PHP Customers and Market Share." Data as of October 8, 2026. https://techleads.fyi/technology/php/market-share
In HTTP Archive's monthly crawl of public websites, PHP was detected on 24,737,328 pages in September 2026, down 11.9% from a year earlier (peak: 31,723,284). Among the 1,000 most-visited sites, it appeared on 519. HTTP Archive is a separate dataset from the TechLeads index, so its numbers are not added to ours.
Same month, other Programming Languages technologies in HTTP Archive: Node.js 3,181,312, Java 1,381,600, TypeScript 903,768, Ruby 689,968, Python 651,824.
PHP customers by country
Based on country-code domains (such as .de or .co.uk); websites on .com and other generic domains are not assigned a country.
TechLeads scans public websites and detects PHP from signals in the page HTML, scripts, cookies, HTTP headers and DNS records. Market share is PHP's website count divided by the website counts of all Programming languages technologies we track; a site using two Programming languages tools counts for both. Counts were last refreshed on October 8, 2026 and update daily.
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PHP accounts for 78.9% of Programming languages detections in the TechLeads index (13,444,051 websites), which makes it the 1st most-used of 27 Programming languages technologies we track.