🆚 Node.js vs. PHP
- 📈 PHP is much more popular than Node.js.
- 🌍 PHP is more popular in all countries.
Node.js
PHPType
About
Node.js is a cross-platform, open-source 
JavaScript runtime environment, commonly used for building server-side and network applications.
It uses a non-blocking, event-driven architecture to handle many concurrent connections efficiently, includes a standard library for networking and file system operations, and provides access to over 3 million packages through the 
Npm registry.
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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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
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Spain in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia 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.
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
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OpenJS Foundation 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 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.