⚡ Platforms in Japan

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

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our research, platforms are detected on 64.4% of websites from Japan.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is PHP, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 92.2% share.
It is followed by Node.js with 3.3% and Ruby on Rails with 2.3%.

PHP 92.2%
Node.js 3.3%
Ruby on Rails 2.3%
.NET 1.8%
Java 1.3%
Python 0.2%
Go 0.1%
Adobe ColdFusion 0.05%
Deno 0.004%
Mono 0.001%
Domino 0.001%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Node.js ^(-1)
3. Ruby on Rails ^(-1)
7. Go ^(-1)
9. Deno ^(-1)
10. Mono ^(-1)

✨ Best Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 11 platforms used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	PHP A widely used free server-side scripting language.	92.2%
2	Node.js San Francisco, California, United States A cross-platform, open-source JavaScript runtime environment that is popular for developing server-side JavaScript applications.	3.3%
3	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	2.3%
4	.NET Redmond, Washington, United States A free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform from Microsoft.	1.8%
5	Java Austin, Texas, United States A multi-platform, object-oriented programming language first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995.	1.3%
6	Python Wilmington, Delaware, United States A high-level, scripting, dynamically typed programming language that is particularly popular in data processing and machine learning.	0.2%
7	Go Mountain View, California, United States A high-level, statically typed, compiled programming language developed at Google.	0.1%
8	Adobe ColdFusion San Jose, California, United States A rapid development platform for building and deploying web and mobile applications.	0.05%
9	Deno San Diego, California, United States A secure JavaScript runtime, a modern Node.js alternative, built on Rust and the V8 JavaScript engine.	0.004%
10	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%
11	Domino Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India A business collaboration software platform developed by IBM and currently maintained by HCL.	0.001%

👉 See Also

🌎 Platforms in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 144,429 websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on February 3, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.