🆚 HTML vs. XHTML
- 📈 HTML is much more popular than XHTML.
- 🌍 HTML is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
HTML
XHTMLType
Standard
Standard
About
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.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
HTML is 19 times more popular than XHTML.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
HTML is more popular than XHTML in all countries.
United States
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Russia
Italy
Spain
China
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in South Africa in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Norway in the Standards category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Philippines in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in China in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Brunei Darussalam in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Hong Kong in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
HTML is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and education and reference, while XHTML is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, forum, bulletin boards, and health sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
General News
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Finance/Banking
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
CSS
YAML
GraphQL
XFN🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.