🆚 JavaScript vs. PHP
- 📈 JavaScript is noticeably more popular than PHP.
- 🌎 JavaScript is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan.
- 🌍 PHP is more popular in the British Virgin Islands, Burkina Faso, and Dominica.
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, includes a standardized specification called ECMAScript, and is widely used for client-side scripting, server-side development, and cross-platform applications.
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.
Headquarters
Categories
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.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
C#
Lua
Java
Go
Hack
Oracle company profile🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.