⚡ Software Platforms
Software platforms are environments that consist of programming languages, runtimes, and supporting frameworks, serving as the basis for developing, deploying, and running applications.
They typically offer features such as execution environments, standard libraries, package management, concurrency and networking capabilities, and integration with databases and external services.
According to our research, software 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 82.1% share.
It is followed by 
.NET with 6.8% and 
Node.js with 6.7%.
Go
HHVMYou 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 Belgium (-1)
Adobe ColdFusion is #6 in the United States (-1)
✨ Best Platforms
Below is a more detailed list of 12 platforms we detect, ranked by their market share.
👉 See Also
Computing platform🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- We currently track the presence of 12 platforms across the web.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.