🆚 JavaScript vs. PHP
JavaScript
PHPType
About
JavaScript is an interpreted programming language and a core technology of the web, alongside 
HTML and 
CSS, used to add interactivity and logic to websites and web applications.
It runs in all major browsers, supports event-driven and asynchronous programming, and serves as the foundation of software platforms such as 
Node.js and 
Deno, as well as many cross-platform application frameworks.
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 the United States in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Programming Languages 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.
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- 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.