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> "nearly 80% of the internet is running on PHP as of 2018." I've heard claims like this for years. They almost never explain their methodology for calculating
by cphoover 8y ago
> "nearly 80% of the internet is running on PHP as of 2018."
I've heard claims like this for years. They almost never explain their methodology for calculating market share among the entire web. The site linked actually shows its methodology and it proves that the author is using the statistic incorrectly.
Under methodolgies:
> We investigate technologies of websites, not of
individual web pages. If we find a technology on any of the pages, it is considered to be used by the website.
This does not prove that 80% of the web is powered by PHP, but rather 80% of websites studied had PHP running in some capacity, under the same domain.
It would be wildly inaccurate to assess from that, that
> "nearly 80% of the internet is running on PHP as of 2018." as claimed.
Google.com may have a wordpress blog for press releases running somewhere under their domain... that hardly means google is powered by wordpress.
Also, for example it would be totally wrong to say Facebook is powered solely by PHP.