🆚 Less vs. Markdown
- 📈 Less is twice as popular as Markdown.
- 🌎 Less is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Markdown is more popular in Japan, Isle of Man, and Saint Helena.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Less
MarkdownType
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 lightweight markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents using simple, human-readable syntax.
It defines elements such as headings, lists, links, images, code blocks, and emphasis through a simple set of symbols like "#*`[]()", and supports extensions for tables, footnotes, and task lists.
Headquarters
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Less is 2 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 Saint Helena.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Russia
Czech Republic
France
Netherlands
Spain
Italy
Japan
Awards
- 🔥 14th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Slovakia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Belarus in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Iceland in the Standards category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Russia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in China in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 26th most popular in Norway in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 27th most popular in Switzerland in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 29th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
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.
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GraphQL🗃️ 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.