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0 pointsmaratd13y ago0 comments

Common sense. Calculate how much traffic Wikipedia + Facebook + Wordpress + All The Rest generate. Calculate in the fact that most services talk to other services and more importantly, talk to Facebook.

Click on a link?

I promise, at some point, PHP is involved.

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ijoyce13y ago· 4 in thread

When you actually have a real source or numbers, let me know.

Ralith13y ago

Not to mention that the web is not the internet.

adventureful13y ago

Pretty sure almost everybody on HN understands the technical separation between the two.

Sometimes people speak in broad generalities, or use "Internet" when they mean "Web." It is in fact extraordinarily common.

adventureful13y ago

Apparently it's closer to 78%

http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all

No matter how you try to hide from it, it's blatantly clear that PHP runs at least half the entire Web.

What else exactly did you think was? Surely you didn't think Python was running half the web. Obviously Ruby isn't. So what does that leave? Coldfusion? C?

andrewflnr13y ago

> What else exactly did you think was?

Well, in principle, there's no reason any one language has to run half the web by itself. And there are also static pages.

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