I have seen many posts that malign PHP for its language problems to the extent that people tend to leave PHP and go for Rails, Python etc. But I was surprised when I filtered the latest round of popular web framework benchmarks. I filtered the round to look out for some popular web framework and the results are here: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r5&f=5s6i-13ydnk-0"

You would see plain PHP coming on top or near top in many tests.

When it comes to performance, PHP is hard to be beaten by Rails, Djangos of the modern world. And who would beat performance?

Hail PHP.