⚡ Software Platforms in China

Software platforms are environments that consist of programming languages, runtimes, and supporting frameworks, serving as the basis for developing, deploying, and running applications.

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

According to our research, software 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 70.9% share.
It is followed by .NET with 20.7% and Java with 5.9%.

🚀 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.

✨ Best Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 10 platforms used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
PHP

A widely used server-side scripting language for building dynamic web applications.

2
.NET
Redmond, Washington, United States

A free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform from Microsoft used to build web, desktop, mobile, cloud, and IoT applications across Windows, Linux, and macOS.

3
Java
Austin, Texas, United States

A multi-platform, object-oriented programming language first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995, designed to run across different systems through the Java Virtual Machine.

4
Node.js
San Francisco, California, United States

A cross-platform, open-source JavaScript runtime environment, commonly used for building server-side and network applications.

5
Ruby on Rails
Chicago, Illinois, United States

A full-stack web application framework that provides the tools needed to build database-driven applications using the Model-View-Controller pattern.

FreeOpen source
6
Go
Mountain View, California, United States

A high-level, statically typed, compiled programming language developed at Google for building efficient, scalable software and backend services.

7
Python
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

A high-level, general-purpose programming language that is dynamically typed and widely used for scripting, automation, data analysis, and machine learning.

8
Adobe ColdFusion
San Jose, California, United States

A rapid development platform for building and deploying web and mobile applications.

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.

10
Deno
San Diego, California, United States

A secure JavaScript runtime, a modern Node.js alternative, built on Rust and the V8 JavaScript engine.

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