Programming languages · comparison
Perl vs PHP
PHP is used on 4,478,497 sites, 341 times as many as Perl (13,119 sites).
In Programming languages, Perl ranks #7 and PHP #1 by number of sites.
From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, Perl grew 3.6% and PHP grew 0.3%.
3,506 sites run both: 27% of Perl sites and less than 0.1% of PHP sites.
Pe
Perl
perl.org
- Sites
- 13,119
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.08%
- Rank in Programming languages
- #7
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +3.6%
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
3,506
sites run Perl and PHP
of Perl sites26.7%
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.