🆚 .NET vs. PHP
- 📈 PHP is much more popular than .NET.
- 🌎 PHP is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 .NET is more popular in Brunei Darussalam.
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About
.NET is a free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform from Microsoft used to build web, desktop, mobile, cloud, and IoT applications across 
Windows, 
Linux, and macOS.
It includes a runtime with automatic memory management, a large standard library and APIs, support for various languages such as 
C#, F#, and Visual Basic, and a package ecosystem with over 400,000 NuGet packages, along with frameworks like ASP.NET Core for web applications and .NET MAUI for cross-platform interfaces.
PHP (originally named "Personal Home Page" and now defined as the recursive acronym "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor") is a widely used server-side scripting language for building dynamic web applications.
It features dynamic typing, flexible string interpolation, garbage collection, a large standard library, built-in handling of sessions, cookies, forms, and file uploads, native integration with numerous databases, and, since PHP 8, additional improvements such as just-in-time compilation, union types, attributes, and enums.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Brunei Darussalam in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Italy in the Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Node.js
Adobe ColdFusion
JavaScript
Java
Go
Hack🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.