Japan 87% WordPress at 175K Sites. Korea's Vue Ecosystem Is the Exception, Not the Rule.
175,103 .jp sites, 14,205 .kr sites scanned. Japan at 87% WordPress is the world's third-largest economy on legacy infrastructure. Korea's Vue at 11% surpassed Angular at 7% — the framework-diverse market shifted.
Japan at 87% WordPress across 175K sites confirms the agency-driven development culture at massive scale. Japan's web agencies standardized on WordPress in 2010 and never moved — the third-largest economy runs on legacy CMS.
Korea's Vue at 11% surpassed Angular at 7% at 10M scale — the most framework-diverse market in East Asia shifted. Chaebols drove enterprise JS adoption, but Vue's ecosystem won at scale. WordPress still holds 74%.
China's Vue.js story is real but modest: 7.7% Vue + 3.2% Nuxt = 11% of .cn sites. The cultural adoption pattern (Chinese-first documentation) created a beachhead, but WordPress at 77% still dominates the broader Chinese web.
Hong Kong at 26% Drupal is an anomaly — the institutional governance model (universities, government, NGOs) chose Drupal early. It's the highest Drupal share in East Asia by far.
Same region. Different digital realities.
5 countries analyzed from our scan data. The gap within regions is wider than the gap between them.
Act on Protection of Personal Information. Amended 2022 with stricter requirements. Legacy infrastructure complicates data subject rights implementation.
Personal Information Protection Act. Among the strictest in Asia. Enterprise-grade framework choices align with compliance requirements.
Personal Information Protection Law. China's GDPR equivalent. Data localization requirements add infrastructure complexity.
Critical information infrastructure protection. Framework choices affect compliance posture for operators in scope.