PHP has some unique design considerations that make it better suited for web. PHP's main significant weaknesses for that domain would be the lack of a strong ty

PHP has some unique design considerations that make it better suited for web. PHP's main significant weaknesses for that domain would be the lack of a strong type system, lack of strong event based server ecosystem (what reactphp does, nodejs, golang, etc.), and it's slower than Java. It has multiple popular long supported rails alternatives. Python and Ruby have nothing over PHP for web development. PHP has the absolute best first class support for isolated http request handling, live updating only challenged by erlang, standard library designed entirely around webdev, great tooling for building c extensions, widespread cpanel hosting, and composer (pip is garbage compared to composer). So while you might like ruby/python because it's prettier or because PHP 4 was awful, the idea that one of them is a better web language is totally laughable. If you asked me to define a language better than PHP for web applications, I would have you a long list not even considering python and ruby.