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PHP

32,033,127

companies run it, 58.7% of 54,527,857 in the index. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Hosts: 81,781,018 live hosts run it, of 191,809,695 hosts in the index, 42.6%. A host is a website, not a company.

Companies by month

Companies, monthly, on the fixed panel of sites crawled since 2020of 54,527,857 in the indexlanding 12 Sept 2026

32,032,667 at Sept 26; 32,069,176 twelve months earlier, -36,509, -0.1% on the fixed panel; the series starts January 2021 because the panel is anchored at 31 Dec 2020

The 69 numbers in this chart
MonthCompaniesObserved on the panel
2021-0129,605,9584,275,127
2021-0229,606,0034,275,133
2021-0329,606,0384,275,138
2021-0429,606,0674,275,143
2021-0529,606,1044,275,148
2021-0629,606,1374,275,153
2021-0729,606,2144,275,164
2021-0829,607,0684,275,287
2021-0929,607,6664,275,373
2021-1029,608,2074,275,452
2021-1129,608,7474,275,530
2021-1229,609,3494,275,616
2022-0129,609,8544,275,689
2022-0229,610,3614,275,763
2022-0329,610,9654,275,850
2022-0429,611,5224,275,930
2022-0529,612,0794,276,011
2022-0629,612,6694,276,096
2022-0729,613,2394,276,178
2022-0829,613,7594,276,253
2022-0929,613,6964,276,244
2022-1029,613,8104,276,261
2022-1129,613,9654,276,283
2022-1229,614,1034,276,303
2023-0129,614,1954,276,316
2023-0229,614,3644,276,341
2023-0329,614,5554,276,368
2023-0429,738,4634,294,261
2023-0529,803,7814,303,693
2023-0629,869,0984,313,124
2023-0729,934,3714,322,550
2023-0829,999,6624,331,978
2023-0930,064,9544,341,406
2023-1030,130,1014,350,813
2023-1130,195,3254,360,232
2023-1230,260,5504,369,650
2024-0130,325,7624,379,067
2024-0230,391,0094,388,489
2024-0330,510,3174,405,717
2024-0430,617,6674,421,218
2024-0530,601,1994,418,840
2024-0630,644,2474,425,057
2024-0730,687,0984,431,244
2024-0830,733,0414,437,879
2024-0930,843,4984,453,829
2024-1030,988,3814,474,750
2024-1131,140,8764,496,770
2024-1231,284,3164,517,483
2025-0131,450,0134,541,410
2025-0231,581,4244,560,386
2025-0331,712,7764,579,353
2025-0431,797,4864,591,585
2025-0531,870,3094,602,101
2025-0631,951,4824,613,823
2025-0732,019,2284,623,605
2025-0832,102,9824,635,699
2025-0932,069,1764,630,818
2025-1031,969,5514,616,432
2025-1131,835,5004,597,075
2025-1231,693,8374,576,618
2026-0131,572,3604,559,077
2026-0231,750,2664,584,767
2026-0332,054,0264,628,630
2026-0432,044,2754,627,222
2026-0532,023,9994,624,294
2026-0632,030,6394,625,253
2026-0732,026,6934,624,683
2026-0832,042,1524,626,915
2026-0932,032,6674,625,546

Both denominators, and a third

Shares of the same 32,033,127each row a different wholelanding 12 Sept 2026

Denominator
Companies
Share
companies in the index
54,527,857
58.7%
companies running anything in Programming Languages and Runtimes
36,337,962
88.2%
companies running anything in Server-side programming languages
33,309,133
96.2%

Three wholes, three shares of one count: a share travels with its whole, never alone. Against the last of them, PHP is rank 1 of 24 technologies in Server-side programming languages.

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32,033,127 companies; add a country, a sector or a band on the segment page. Counting is free.

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Catalogue record

As recorded in the cataloguetaxonomy release tax-2026.10last discovered 10 Sept 2026

PHP is an open-source server-side scripting language and runtime for web development.

Maintained by The PHP Group, PHP executes server-side scripts to build dynamic web applications. It is widely used with web servers and databases and deployed on self-hosted infrastructure.

Kindproduct
VendorThe PHP Group, php.net
Slugphp
Deploymentself-hosted
Pricingfree
Open sourceyes
First discovered2019-05-29
Last discovered2026-09-10
Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10