🆚 Less vs. Markdown

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
Less
Markdown

Type

Standard
Standard

About

Less ("Leaner Style Sheets") is a backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.

Markdown is a markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents.

Headquarters

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Website

lesscss.org #2,039,198
daringfireball.net #210,183

Categories

Standards › Rank #25
Standards › Rank #31

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Less is 2.1 times more popular than Markdown.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Less is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Markdown is more popular in Japan, Isle of Man, and Liechtenstein.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Russia
Czech Republic
France
Netherlands
Spain
Italy
Japan

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Less is more popular among sites focused on business, sports, and marketing and merchandising, while Markdown is more commonly used on Internet services, blogs and wiki, and software and hardware sites.
Business
Sports
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#19
#56
#101
#160
#198
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Name
Rank
#543
#1,304
#2,266
#2,326
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See also

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