Comparison of the usage of PHP vs. JavaScript

This report shows the usage statistics of PHP vs. JavaScript as server-side programming language on the web.For explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys. Our reports are updated daily.

Usage

This diagram shows the percentages of websites using the selected technologies.

How to read the diagram:
PHP is used by 80.9% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know.

PHP	80.9%
JavaScript	less than 0.1%
	W3Techs.com, 4 September 2013
Percentages of websites using various server-side programming languages

Usage broken down by ranking

This diagram shows the percentages of websites using the selected technologies broken down by ranking.

How to read the diagram:
PHP is used by 80.9% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know.
PHP is used by 78.6% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know and that rank in the top 1,000,000.

PHP	80.9%
	78.6%
	73.0%
	64.7%
	56.7%
JavaScript	0.0%
	0.1%
	0.1%
	0.2%
	0.3%
	W3Techs.com, 4 September 2013
Overall top 1,000,000 top 100,000 top 10,000 top 1,000
Percentages of websites using the selected server-side programming languages broken down by ranking

Historical trend

This diagram shows the historical trend in the percentage of websites using the selected technologies.
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Market position

This diagram shows the market position of the selected technologies in terms of popularity and traffic compared to the most popular server-side programming languages.
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