⚡ Package Managers

Package managers are tools that automate the installation, updating, and management of software dependencies in projects.

According to our data, package manager technologies are used on 10.1% of all websites.
85.4% of these sites use only one package manager technology, 14.4% use two, and 0.2% use three or more simultaneously.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading package manager technologies in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Npm with an impressive share of 52.2%, followed by Composer with 48.7% and Bower with 13.8%.

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of technologies that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

✨ Best Package Manager Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 4 package manager technologies we detect, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
Npm
San Francisco, California, United States

A JavaScript package manager bundled with Node.js.

Free$7+/month
2
Composer

An application-level dependency manager for PHP that lets developers declare, install, and update external libraries.

FreeOpen source
3
Bower

A package manager for the web, optimized for front-end assets such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, fonts, and images.

FreeOpen source
4
Yarn

An open-source JavaScript package manager originally developed by Facebook, designed as a fast alternative to Npm.

FreeOpen source
Data is based on the analysis of 3,333,506 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.