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

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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](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.

## Claims that cite it

No claim cites this source yet.

## Events that cite it

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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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