🆚 Less vs. Markdown

📈 Less is as popular as Markdown.
🌎 Less is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia.
🌍 Markdown is more popular in the United Kingdom, France, and Japan.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Less

Markdown

Type

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

Switzerland

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Website

lesscss.org #2,039,198

daringfireball.net #210,183

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Less is as popular as 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 Russia, while Markdown is more popular in the United Kingdom, France, and Japan.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Russia

Czech Republic

France

Japan

Netherlands

Spain

Italy

Awards

🔥 14th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Standards category.
🔥 14th most popular in Slovakia in the Standards category.
🔥 14th most popular in Iceland in the Standards category.
🔥 16th most popular in Russia in the Standards category.
🔥 16th most popular in Belarus in the Standards category.

🔥 17th most popular in China in the Standards category.
🔥 18th most popular in Taiwan in the Standards category.
🔥 19th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
⬆️ 21st most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the Standards category.
⬆️ 22nd most popular in Norway 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 sports, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Markdown is more commonly used on business, Internet services, and blogs and wiki sites.

Business

Sports

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Internet Services

Forum/Bulletin Boards

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#19

#101

#198

#268

#489

Name

Rank

#20

#47

#401

#543

#1,022