⚡ Platforms in New Zealand

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

New Zealand is an Oceanian country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our research, platforms are detected on 70.7% of websites from New Zealand.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is PHP, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 74.2% share.
It is followed by .NET with 8.7% and Ruby on Rails with 7.9%.

PHP 74.2%
.NET 8.7%
Ruby on Rails 7.9%
Node.js 7.2%
Java 5.2%
Python 0.5%
Adobe ColdFusion 0.3%
Go 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Ruby on Rails ^(-1)

✨ Best Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 8 platforms used on sites from New Zealand, 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.	74.2%
2	.NET Redmond, Washington, United States A free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform from Microsoft.	8.7%
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	7.9%
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.	7.2%
5	Java Austin, Texas, United States A multi-platform, object-oriented programming language first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995.	5.2%
6	Python Wilmington, Delaware, United States A high-level, scripting, dynamically typed programming language that is particularly popular in data processing and machine learning.	0.5%
7	Adobe ColdFusion San Jose, California, United States A rapid development platform for building and deploying web and mobile applications.	0.3%
8	Go Mountain View, California, United States A high-level, statically typed, compiled programming language developed at Google.	0.1%

👉 See Also

🌎 Platforms in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 13,907 websites from New Zealand.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.