<![CDATA[Anybody know where the "70% of all websites use PHP" number comes from?]]>Anybody know where the "70% of all websites use PHP" number comes from?

Seems high to me.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/efdf588e-d939-44bf-ad28-c9efc3c3b216/anybody-know-where-the-70-of-all-websites-use-php-number-comes-fromRSS for NodeThu, 29 Oct 2026 04:37:43 GMTWed, 21 Oct 2026 22:06:18 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Anybody know where the "70% of all websites use PHP" number comes from? on Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:36:06 GMT]]>@jschauma the Danish national broadcasting company (DR) cited... OpenAI! 🙃

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.data.coop/users/reynir/statuses/117482701892284241https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.data.coop/users/reynir/statuses/117482701892284241Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:36:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Anybody know where the "70% of all websites use PHP" number comes from? on Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:30:09 GMT]]>@paul_ipv6 @jschauma exactly. if a site could be a single page URL, and therefore every URL ending in php... that could be a ton

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/synlogic4242/statuses/117481262901239824https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/synlogic4242/statuses/117481262901239824Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:30:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Anybody know where the "70% of all websites use PHP" number comes from? on Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:28:48 GMT]]>@jschauma lots of older gen blogs and CMS were lIkely still running 2000s style LAMP archs. because It Just Works. vestigial carryover from before the rise of modern socmedia platform black holes. the long tail

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/synlogic4242/statuses/117481257594095957https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/users/synlogic4242/statuses/117481257594095957Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:28:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Anybody know where the "70% of all websites use PHP" number comes from? on Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:17:01 GMT]]>@jtk Yeah, I'm quite sure this number is totally pulled out of somebody's arse.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/jschauma/statuses/117481211252457549https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/jschauma/statuses/117481211252457549Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:17:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Anybody know where the "70% of all websites use PHP" number comes from? on Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:12:45 GMT]]>@jschauma I saw it in this WSJ article, not sure where they got it from.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/ai-just-found-a-bug-that-puts-up-to-70-of-the-worlds-websites-at-risk-fd0902ea?st=s1JdGy

Update: maybe this rando post in the hn thread they link to? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50175031

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jtk/statuses/117481194515978695https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/jtk/statuses/117481194515978695Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:12:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Anybody know where the "70% of all websites use PHP" number comes from? on Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:09:07 GMT]]>@jschauma

be interesting to see how they define "website" too. some "sites" are dozens and dozens of servers.

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