⚡ Code Hosting in Italy

Code hosting platforms allow developers to store, manage, and collaborate on source code using version control systems such as Git, enabling distributed development and maintaining complete histories of changes across projects.

Italy is a Southern European country with a population of around 59 million people.

According to our research, code hosting platforms are detected on 1.7% of websites from Italy.

Statistics based on 89K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top code hosting platforms in Italy in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is GitHub, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 96.6% share.
It is followed by GitLab with 2.1% and SourceForge with 1.8%.

GitHub 96.6%
GitLab 2.1%
SourceForge 1.8%
Google Code Archive 0.3%
Codeberg 0.3%
Bitbucket 0.2%
Gitea 0.07%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top platforms that are more popular in Italy than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

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✨ Best Code Hosting Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 7 code hosting platforms used on sites from Italy, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	GitHub San Francisco, California, United States A cloud-based platform for code hosting, version control, and collaborative software development built around the Git system and owned by Microsoft. Free$4+/user/month	96.6%
2	GitLab San Francisco, California, United States A web-based DevOps platform for collaborative software development, project management, source control, and automation built around the Git system. Free$29+/user/month	2.1%
3	SourceForge San Diego, California, United States A software platform with an open-source project repository, bug tracking, wiki, and Git and SVN integration. Free	1.8%
4	Google Code Archive Mountain View, California, United States Google Code was a code hosting service for open source projects. FreeLegacy	0.3%
5	Codeberg Berlin, Germany A non-profit collaboration platform for hosting and developing free and open-source software projects, built on the Forgejo Git-based software forge. Free	0.3%
6	Bitbucket Sydney, Australia A Git-based code hosting and collaboration platform for professional teams that supports repository management, code review, and built-in CI/CD workflows. Free$3.30+/user/month	0.2%
⏳	Gitea Lewes, Delaware, United States An open-source Git-based platform written in Go for hosting source code and managing software development projects, originally created as a fork of Gogs. FreeOpen source$9.5+/user/month	0.07%

👉 See Also

🌎 Code Hosting in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 89,872 websites from Italy.
We currently track the presence of 11 code hosting platforms across the web.
Of these, 7 were detected on websites from Italy.
Statistics were last calculated on May 6, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.