⚡ Platforms

Software platforms are frameworks of software and resources that serve as the basis for developing, running, and managing software applications.

According to our research, platforms are detected on 68.6% of all websites.
96.3% of these sites use only one platform, 3.7% use two.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading platforms on the web in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is PHP, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 82.2% share.
It is followed by .NET with 6.8% and Node.js with 6.6%.

PHP 82.2%
.NET 6.8%
Node.js 6.6%
Ruby on Rails 4.1%
Java 3.1%
Python 0.5%
Adobe ColdFusion 0.2%
Go 0.2%
Domino 0.01%
Deno 0.006%
Mono 0.001%
HHVM 0.001%

You can also drill down by country:

🚀 Country Highlights

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

Node.js is #2 in Germany ^(-1)
Ruby on Rails is #2 in Pakistan ^(-2)
Java is #2 in Korea ^(-3)
Python is #5 in Belgium ^(-1)
Adobe ColdFusion is #6 in the United States ^(-1)

✨ Best Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 12 platforms we detect, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	PHP A widely used server-side scripting language for building dynamic web applications.	82.2%
2	.NET Redmond, Washington, United States A free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform from Microsoft used to build web, desktop, mobile, cloud, and IoT applications across Windows, Linux, and macOS.	6.8%
3	Node.js San Francisco, California, United States A cross-platform, open-source JavaScript runtime environment, commonly used for building server-side and network applications.	6.6%
4	Ruby on Rails Chicago, Illinois, United States A full-stack framework that includes everything needed to build database-driven web applications using the Model-View-Controller pattern. FreeOpen source	4.1%
5	Java Austin, Texas, United States A multi-platform, object-oriented programming language first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995, designed to run across different systems through the Java Virtual Machine.	3.1%
6	Python Wilmington, Delaware, United States A high-level, general-purpose programming language that is dynamically typed and widely used for scripting, automation, data analysis, and machine learning.	0.5%
7	Adobe ColdFusion San Jose, California, United States A rapid development platform for building and deploying web and mobile applications.	0.2%
8	Go Mountain View, California, United States A high-level, statically typed, compiled programming language developed at Google for building efficient, scalable software and backend services.	0.2%
9	Domino Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India A business collaboration software platform developed by IBM and currently maintained by HCL.	0.01%
10	Deno San Diego, California, United States A secure JavaScript runtime, a modern Node.js alternative, built on Rust and the V8 JavaScript engine.	0.006%
11	Mono Redmond, Washington, United States A cross-platform open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime.	0.001%
12	HHVM Menlo Park, California, United States An open-source virtual machine designed to execute programs written in the Hack programming language, originally developed for Facebook and still used by Meta.	0.001%

👉 See Also

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Data is based on the analysis of 3,333,506 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on April 2, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.