⚡ 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 72.3% of all websites.
98.1% of these sites use only one platform, 1.8% use two.

⭐ Most Popular in 2025

The following chart shows the leading platforms on the web in 2025, based on market share.

The most popular is PHP, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 86% share.
It is followed by .NET with 6.4% and Node.js with 3.5%.

PHP 86%
.NET 6.4%
Node.js 3.5%
Java 2.8%
Ruby on Rails 2.4%
Python 0.4%
Adobe ColdFusion 0.2%
Go 0.2%
Domino 0.01%
Deno 0.004%
Mono 0.001%

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🚀 Highlights

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

Node.js is #2 in Germany ^(-1)
Java is #2 in Korea ^(-2)
Ruby on Rails is #2 in Canada ^(-3)
Python is #4 in Ukraine ^(-2)
Adobe ColdFusion is #5 in Switzerland ^(-2)
Go is #6 in China ^(-2)

✨ Best Platforms

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

Rank	Name	Market share
1	PHP A widely used free server-side scripting language.	86%
2	.NETRedmond, Washington, United States A free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform from Microsoft.	6.4%
3	Node.jsSan Francisco, California, United States A cross-platform, open-source JavaScript runtime environment that is popular for developing server-side JavaScript applications.	3.5%
4	JavaAustin, Texas, United States A multi-platform, object-oriented programming language first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995.	2.8%
5	Ruby on RailsChicago, Illinois, United States A popular full-stack framework that includes everything needed to build database-driven web applications using the Model-View-Controller pattern.	2.4%
6	PythonWilmington, Delaware, United States A high-level, scripting, dynamically typed programming language that is particularly popular in data processing and machine learning.	0.4%
7	Adobe ColdFusionSan Jose, California, United States A rapid development platform for building and deploying web and mobile applications.	0.2%
8	GoMountain View, California, United States A high-level, statically typed, compiled programming language developed at Google.	0.2%
9	DominoNoida, Uttar Pradesh, India A business collaboration software platform developed by IBM and currently maintained by HCL.	0.01%
10	DenoSan Diego, California, United States A secure JavaScript runtime, a modern Node.js alternative, built on Rust and the V8 JavaScript engine.	0.004%
11	MonoRedmond, 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%

Data updated September 14, 2025

👉 See Also

🔗 Links
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