⚡ Platforms in China

Software platforms are frameworks of software and resources that serve as the basis for developing, running, and managing software applications.

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our research, platforms are detected on 50.6% of websites from China.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top platforms on websites in China in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is PHP, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 71.1% share.
It is followed by .NET with 20.7% and Java with 5.9%.

PHP 71.1%
.NET 20.7%
Java 5.9%
Node.js 5.1%
Ruby on Rails 1.2%
Go 0.2%
Python 0.2%
Adobe ColdFusion 0.005%
Mono 0.002%
Deno 0.002%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Java ^(-2)
6. Go ^(-2)
9. Mono ^(-2)

✨ Best Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 10 platforms used on sites from China, 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.	71.1%
2	.NET Redmond, Washington, United States A free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform from Microsoft.	20.7%
3	Java Austin, Texas, United States A multi-platform, object-oriented programming language first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995.	5.9%
4	Node.js San Francisco, California, United States A cross-platform, open-source JavaScript runtime environment that is popular for developing server-side JavaScript applications.	5.1%
5	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	1.2%
6	Go Mountain View, California, United States A high-level, statically typed, compiled programming language developed at Google.	0.2%
7	Python Wilmington, Delaware, United States A high-level, scripting, dynamically typed programming language that is particularly popular in data processing and machine learning.	0.2%
8	Adobe ColdFusion San Jose, California, United States A rapid development platform for building and deploying web and mobile applications.	0.005%
9	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.	0.002%
10	Deno San Diego, California, United States A secure JavaScript runtime, a modern Node.js alternative, built on Rust and the V8 JavaScript engine.	0.002%

👉 See Also

🌎 Platforms in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 82,655 websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.