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PHP on new websites

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

Sites using PHP
991,720
since Apr 2026
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
In our data since Apr 2026
Last seen Oct 19, 2026
Website php.net

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. Six in ten new PHP sites also use jQuery.

Share of new sites using PHP

0% 10% 20% 30% 10 Sep Oct

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use PHP, since 10 September.

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% phpBB <0.1% Discuz! <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 227,014 sites with a known type
TypeSitesShareBar
E-commerce 52,106 23.0%
Health 39,363 17.3%
Education 21,564 9.5%
Finance 19,094 8.4%
Marketing 17,564 7.7%
Content 16,514 7.3%
Productivity 12,206 5.4%
Games 12,050 5.3%
Developer Tools 10,026 4.4%
Social 9,136 4.0%
Design 5,515 2.4%
Hiring & HR 4,274 1.9%
Country[2] 204,115 sites with a likely country
CountrySitesShareBar
India 32,330 15.8%
France 30,176 14.8%
UK 27,367 13.4%
Japan 20,930 10.3%
US 16,138 7.9%
Canada 8,873 4.4%
Australia 6,342 3.1%
Brazil 5,695 2.8%
Germany 5,568 2.7%
Sweden 4,206 2.1%
Switzerland 3,935 1.9%
Poland 3,906 1.9%
Domain ending 988,635 sites
EndingSitesShareBar
.com 601,466 60.8%
.in 49,305 5.0%
.online 45,613 4.6%
.org 36,391 3.7%
.uk 30,692 3.1%
.fr 29,873 3.0%
.site 24,314 2.5%
.net 20,105 2.0%
.ca 13,202 1.3%
.store 12,586 1.3%
.co 10,239 1.0%
.xyz 8,526 0.9%
Green hosting[3] 10,308 checked sites since Apr 2026
SitesGreenBar
PHP 67%
All new sites 47%

Programming Language on new sites

# Movement Tool Share of all sites Share of category[4] 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 591,539 4.2x
Font Awesome 249,699 3.8x
LiteSpeed Web Server 232,788 3.5x
Hostinger 259,879 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.

Recently launched products built on PHP

32,873 of the 991,720 sites using PHP are product launches we list individually. The other 958,847 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.

Site Found Also detected
Nodpet nodpet.co.uk · United Kingdom Oct 19 Laravel Inertia.js Namecheap DNS Namecheap Email Forwarding
Simkhana · Track Designer simkhana.com Oct 19 Laravel Alpine.js AWS ALB Bunny CDN
18 Cabs — Outstation, local and rental cabs across India 18cabs.com · India Oct 19 Apache GoDaddy
CubPrintables — Free Printable Worksheets for Kids (PreK–Grade 5) cubprintables.com · Education Oct 19 Google Fonts LiteSpeed Web Server MonsterInsights Spaceship DNS
DossierSimple – La comptabilité plus simple, plus intelligente, plus connectée. dossiersimple.com · Productivity Oct 19 Apache Caddy Debian Google Fonts
Free shared calendar for groups, no sign-up - Calinko calinko.app · Productivity · Switzerland Oct 19 Laravel Alpine.js Cloudflare Tailwind CSS
iLoveMyFile – Free Online PDF, Image, Developer & SEO Tools ilovemyfile.com · Productivity Oct 19 Google Fonts Google Search Console Hostinger
tootna — The ERP built for Jordanian businesses tootna.com Oct 19 Bootstrap Icons Cloudflare Google Fonts jsDelivr
Remplacements infirmiers Martinique | IDELCONNECT idel-connect.app · France Oct 19 Google reCAPTCHA Google Sign-In nginx Stripe
Classic Forum Software for PHP & MySQL | Quick BB quickbb.com · Developer Tools Oct 19 cdnjs Font Awesome Google Fonts LiteSpeed Web Server
ProcessReady — Process training your team will actually finish. processready.co · Education Oct 19 Next.js React LiteSpeed Web Server Lucide Icons
AI Fundraising Autopilot for Nonprofits | DonorFoundry donorfoundry.com · Finance Oct 19 Apache Microsoft 365 Namecheap DNS Stripe

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Notes

  1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Some products people expect to see here are filed under a related category: Backend Framework.

How this page is made

FirstSited 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 we detect technologies · How we find new sites

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