🆚 JSON vs. XHTML
- 📈 JSON is much more popular than XHTML.
- 🌎 JSON is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 XHTML is more popular in China, Korea, and Brunei Darussalam.
Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
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About
JSON (
JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.
It represents data as key-value pairs and ordered arrays, supports various data types, and is widely used in web APIs, configuration files, and data storage.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
JSON is 8 times more popular than XHTML.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
JSON is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while XHTML is more popular in China, Korea, and Brunei Darussalam.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Japan
Spain
Italy
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Kenya in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Uganda in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Ghana in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Zimbabwe in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Senegal 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.
JSON is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while XHTML is more commonly used on forum, bulletin boards, games, and recreation and hobbies sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
Travel
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
CSS
YAML
WebAssembly🗃️ 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 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.