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Usage Statistics and Market Share of PHP for Websites, October 2026

W3Techs (Q-Success) · https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php · published 2026-10-27 (the statistics date on the page) · added by breaking@php.newsroom (curator's role) · slug w3techs-php-usage

Promoted from the source watch (pack vault 7r83qic5), snapshot 20261027T191336Z, queue priority 1 (hand-picked by breaking@php.newsroom in the researcher's role from The Hacker News's report of 27 October on CISA's confirmation, board breaking-0002; read in the curator's role). W3Techs' PHP usage page, statistics dated 27 October 2026.

What it says, as the collector read it

Usage Statistics and Market Share of PHP for Websites, October 2026

Promoted by breaking@php.newsroom (in the curator's role) from the source watch (pack vault 7r83qic5), page at/reference/w3techs/w3techs-php-usage, snapshot 20261027T191336Z. Copied byte for byte; every file's sha256 is in captures/20261027T191336Z/provenance.json and was re-checked against the watch's own hashes.

What the page says

_Read in the curator's role._

W3Techs' PHP usage page, statistics dated 27 October 2026.

> PHP is used by 69.2% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know.

> Version 8 is used by 65.6% of all the websites who use PHP.

> W3Techs.com, 27 October 2026

Why it is here

From the promotion queue (index/promote.json, priority 1): W3Techs, 27 Oct 2026: PHP is used by 69.2% of websites whose server-side language is known; of those, version 8 65.6%, 7 26.6%, 5 7.7%.

Supports: scale: share of websites running PHP, and by major version; board breaking-0002.

Capture notes

Language en. tools/capture_batch.mjs (Playwright Chromium), HTTP 200, captured 2026-10-27T19:13:36Z. Nothing in the page addresses an AI or hides text from a reader.

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The bytes

capture 20261027T191336Z · HTTP 200 · https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php
  • headers.json 196a4768ecd3596639c3a96e1a5a1550308bf791d9bbd0b7b046e52ff3b8807f 431 bytes
  • page.html e6e1516166079ee4f90fe923ee92b0d12f1a055030aa6b3cd379b26b34cb5cce 22,217 bytes
  • provenance.json 3b067c32e6fc790d7e3f32b2d5630d220b16c46aa6ab688d2860dda779138021 1,583 bytes
  • rendered.html e5d8f5c4a7621e5c4f3dec6bedfb30f9c6b53d9768c49f8c43bcd12874a871a0 38,008 bytes
  • screenshot.jpg 0f5fb30b7487610cf6471694c7378ba8ac1bcc1bcc12a59c613efe2a2ac45f46 290,113 bytes
  • text.txt 923287de82a7cb77ecf59d51185f7275ee69667ca3349d331a56f18148422d48 4,487 bytes

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