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PHP is one of the most-used server-side programming languages, powering about 76% of active websites. Every year, we release our in-depth performance benchmarks for various PHP frameworks to see how different PHP versions stack up against each other.
In December 2023, we benchmarked PHP 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3 across 11 content management systems (CMSs) and frameworks: WordPress, WooCommerce, Drupal (versions 7 and 10), Joomla, Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, Craft CMS, Typo3, Opencart, and Statamic. We also benchmarked WordPress and WooCommerce on PHP 7.4 since so many sites still run on this version.
As a best practice, we recommend always using the latest PHP version for optimized performance and security.