⚡ Code Sharing in Japan

Online code-sharing platforms allow developers to showcase, test, and collaborate on code snippets or entire projects in interactive environments, often with real-time previews, version control, and support for multiple programming languages.

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our statistics, code sharing technologies are detected on 0.03% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 159K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top code sharing technologies in Japan in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is CodePen with an impressive share of 54.3%, followed by GitHub Gist with 37% and JSFiddle with 8.7%.

CodePen 54.3%
GitHub Gist 37%
JSFiddle 8.7%
JS Bin 2.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. GitHub Gist ^(-1)
4. JS Bin ^(-3)

✨ Best Code Sharing Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 4 code sharing technologies used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	CodePen Bend, Oregon, United States An online social development environment and community for front-end designers and developers to write, test, share, and showcase HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code directly in a browser. Free$12+/month	54.3%
2	GitHub Gist San Francisco, California, United States A Git-based service provided by GitHub for sharing code snippets with others. Free$4+/user/month	37%
3	JSFiddle An online code playground for creating and executing code written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Free$8/month	8.7%
4	JS Bin Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom A web application specifically designed to help JavaScript and CSS folks test snippets of code, within some context, and debug the code collaboratively. Free$16/month	2.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Code Sharing 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 159,836 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 7 code sharing technologies across the web.
Of these, 4 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on April 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.