🆚 PHP vs. Ruby on Rails
- 📈 PHP is much more popular than Ruby on Rails.
- 🌍 PHP is more popular in all countries.
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About
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.
Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web application framework that provides the tools needed to build database-driven applications using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
It emphasizes a standardized project structure and naming, follows DRY ("don't repeat yourself") and "convention over configuration" principles, includes the Active Record ORM for database interaction, a built-in asset pipeline for managing 
CSS and 
JavaScript, and an integrated testing framework.
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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 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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Pakistan in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in New Zealand in the Backend Frameworks 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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Rack🗃️ 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.