Programming languages · comparison

Java vs PHP

PHP is used on 4,478,497 sites, 20 times as many as Java (223,791 sites).

In Programming languages, Java ranks #3 and PHP #1 by number of sites.

From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, Java grew 0.4% and PHP grew 0.3%.

2,602 sites run both: 1.2% of Java sites and less than 0.1% of PHP sites.

Ja

Java

java.com
Sites
223,791
Share of tracked sites
1.43%
Rank in Programming languages
#3
Change since Jul 2026
▲ +0.43%
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

2,602
sites run Java and PHP
of Java sites1.2%
of PHP sites<0.1%

Top sites using Java

  1. sdeerlive.com#85,573
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Often used with Java

Top sites using PHP

  1. telangana.gov.in#12,081
  2. wso2.download#17,612
  3. scilab.org#25,585
  4. finprotect.info#25,799
  5. fx-strategy.info#46,696
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Often used with PHP

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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.