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PHP is an insignificant, declining language outside of WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. Those three combined are ~90% of all sites running PHP[1].

I'd wager that most of the remaining PHP sites are wikis and legacy applications that are too painful to port.

1. https://kinsta.com/php-market-share/

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Did you actually read the article you posted? It states that 79% of sites are using PHP. WordPress is 40%, Joomla 2%, Drupal 1%. So no, they don't combine to ~90% of PHP sites, far from it!

The article even concludes with: "PHP is far from dead, no matter what any disgruntled developer may tell you. After all, 79.2% of all websites in the world can’t all be wrong, and most importantly, PHP’s market share has remained relatively steady throughout the last five years (oscillating between 78–80%). Few programming languages command that type of staying power."

PHP powers a lot of legacy code bases, yes. But there are also a lot of job opportunities in Laravel and Symfony which are both very good frameworks.

> Those three combined are ~90% of all sites running PHP[1].

How are you getting that number? From the link you referenced, the percentages are Wordpress: 40%, Joomla: 2.6%, Drupal: 1.7%

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