diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 02ddf17c..995871e8 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -4,5 +4,8 @@
 docs/*.* -linguist-documentation
 *.md linguist-detectable
 
+# Except for the legacy PHP files, consider those "vender" files to be excluded from the stats
+docs/*.php linguist-vendored
+
 # This is the Perl file from https://github.com/Pomax/tex2utf
 *.pl linguist-vendored