⚡ Platforms in Hong Kong

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

Hong Kong is an East Asian special administrative region of China with a population of around 7.5 million people.

According to our research, platforms are detected on 51.2% of websites from Hong Kong.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is PHP, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 72.9% share.
It is followed by .NET with 12.8% and Java with 9.1%.

PHP 72.9%
.NET 12.8%
Java 9.1%
Node.js 6.7%
Ruby on Rails 3.7%
Python 0.4%
Go 0.2%
Mono 0.01%
Deno 0.01%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Java ^(-2)
7. Go ^(-1)
8. Mono ^(-3)
9. Deno ^(-1)

✨ Best Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 9 platforms used on sites from Hong Kong, 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.	72.9%
2	.NET Redmond, Washington, United States A free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform from Microsoft.	12.8%
3	Java Austin, Texas, United States A multi-platform, object-oriented programming language first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995.	9.1%
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.	6.7%
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	3.7%
6	Python Wilmington, Delaware, United States A high-level, scripting, dynamically typed programming language that is particularly popular in data processing and machine learning.	0.4%
7	Go Mountain View, California, United States A high-level, statically typed, compiled programming language developed at Google.	0.2%
8	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.	0.01%
9	Deno San Diego, California, United States A secure JavaScript runtime, a modern Node.js alternative, built on Rust and the V8 JavaScript engine.	0.01%

👉 See Also

🌎 Platforms in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 17,964 websites from Hong Kong.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.