Programming languages · comparison
Node.js vs PHP
PHP is used on 4,478,497 sites, 9.2 times as many as Node.js (488,171 sites).
In Programming languages, Node.js ranks #2 and PHP #1 by number of sites.
From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, Node.js grew 0.3% and PHP grew 0.3%.
8,416 sites run both: 1.7% of Node.js sites and 0.2% of PHP sites.
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Node.js
nodejs.org
- Sites
- 488,171
- Share of tracked sites
- 3.16%
- Rank in Programming languages
- #2
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.28%
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
8,416
sites run Node.js and PHP
of Node.js sites1.7%
of PHP sites0.2%
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.