⚡ 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%

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 Australia ^(-2)
Java is #2 in Korea ^(-3)
Python is #5 in Switzerland ^(-1)
Adobe ColdFusion is #6 in the United States ^(-1)

✨ Best Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 11 platforms we detect, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	PHP A widely used free server-side scripting language designed for building dynamic web applications and powering content-driven websites.	82.2%
2	.NET Redmond, Washington, United States A free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform from Microsoft.	6.8%
3	Node.js San Francisco, California, United States A cross-platform, open-source JavaScript runtime environment that is popular for developing server-side JavaScript 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.	3.1%
6	Python Wilmington, Delaware, United States A high-level, scripting, dynamically typed programming language that is particularly popular in data processing 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.	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%

👉 See Also

🔗 Links
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Data is based on the analysis of 3,320,410 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on March 20, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.