Programming languages · comparison
C vs PHP
PHP is used on 4,478,497 sites, 768 times as many as C (5,832 sites).
In Programming languages, C ranks #9 and PHP #1 by number of sites.
From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, C grew 6.3% and PHP grew 0.3%.
499 sites run both: 8.6% of C sites and less than 0.1% of PHP sites.
C
C
www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14
- Sites
- 5,832
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.04%
- Rank in Programming languages
- #9
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +6.3%
Ph
PHP
php.net
- Sites
- 4,478,497
- Share of tracked sites
- 29.1%
- Rank in Programming languages
- #1
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.32%
Sites using both
499
sites run C and PHP
of C sites8.6%
of PHP sites<0.1%
Top sites using PHP
- telangana.gov.in#12,081
- wso2.download#17,612
- scilab.org#25,585
- finprotect.info#25,799
- fx-strategy.info#46,696
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Site counts and ranks come from our crawl of the web; the change compares the monthly adoption snapshots both technologies have.