🆚 CGI vs. HTML

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
CGI
HTML

Type

Standard
Standard

About

Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is an interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language used to create web pages and is the de facto standard for documents displayed in web browsers.

It defines the structure of web content using elements for text, links, images, forms, tables, and embedded media, organizes documents into a hierarchical DOM, and enables hyperlinking between pages, which is a fundamental mechanism of the World Wide Web.

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Headquarters

Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

rfc-editor.org #66,537
html.spec.whatwg.org

Categories

Standards › Rank #23
Standards › Rank #2

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

HTML is 121 times more popular than CGI.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

HTML is more popular than CGI in all countries.
United States
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Italy
Russia
Spain
China

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

HTML is more popular than CGI in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
General News
Software/Hardware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Finance/Banking

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#2,245
#2,723
#2,731
#2,801
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Name
Rank
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
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