⚡ 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 10.2% of all websites.
85.5% of these sites use only one package manager technology, 14.3% use two, and 0.2% use three or more simultaneously.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 52.3%, followed by Composer with 48.6% and Bower with 13.8%.

Npm 52.3%
Composer 48.6%
Bower 13.8%
Yarn 0.06%

You can also drill down by country:

🚀 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.

Composer is #1 in Germany ^(-1)

✨ Best Package Manager Technologies

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

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Npm San Francisco, California, United States A JavaScript package manager bundled with Node.js. Free$7+/month	52.3%
2	Composer An application-level dependency manager for PHP that lets developers declare, install, and update external libraries. FreeOpen source	48.6%
3	Bower A package manager for the web, optimized for front-end assets such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, fonts, and images. FreeOpen source	13.8%
4	Yarn An open-source JavaScript package manager originally developed by Facebook, designed as a fast alternative to Npm. FreeOpen source	0.06%

🗃️ 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 3,370,977 websites.
We currently track the presence of 4 package manager technologies across the web.
Statistics were last calculated on April 17, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.