🆚 Less vs. XML

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Less
XML

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.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing structured data in a platform-independent way.

It uses a hierarchical tree structure with custom-defined tags, supports schemas such as DTD and XML Schema for validation, enables namespaces to avoid naming conflicts, and is widely used in formats and protocols such as RSS, SOAP, and configuration files.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

lesscss.org #2,039,198
w3.org/XML/ #12,884

Categories

Standards › Rank #25
Standards › Rank #28

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Less is 1.6 times more popular than XML.
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, the Czech Republic, and Russia, while XML is more popular in Japan, Germany, and Switzerland.
United States
Japan
Germany
Czech Republic
Russia
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Italy
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Less is more popular among sites focused on sports, business, and online shopping, while XML is more commonly used on public information sites.
Sports
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Education/Reference
Travel
Internet Services
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#19
#50
#101
#198
#317
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Name
Rank
#940
#1,288
#1,453
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