PHP vs Ruby

PHP is used by more websites in our catalog: 390,378 use PHP and 5,946 use Ruby.

Ruby sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (PHP: 26, Ruby: 39).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, PHP went from 49% to 44% of all tracked sites, while Ruby went from 0.81% to 0.68%. Ruby is gaining ground faster in our index.

655 websites in our catalog use both PHP and Ruby.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.