🆚 Less vs. YAML

📈 YAML is much more popular than Less.
🌎 YAML is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Less is more popular in Russia, the Czech Republic, and Vietnam.

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

Less

YAML

Type

Standard

About

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

YAML ("YAML Ain't Markup Language") is a human-readable data serialization language designed for representing structured data and exchanging it between systems and programming languages.

It uses indentation-based syntax with minimal structural characters, represents data using three core primitives such as mappings, sequences, and scalars, and includes features such as anchors and aliases for referencing data, along with a simple typing system for numbers, strings, and booleans.

Headquarters

Switzerland

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

lesscss.org #2,039,198

yaml.org #1,123,508

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

YAML is 7 times more popular than Less.

Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

YAML is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Less is more popular in Russia, the Czech Republic, and Vietnam.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Germany

Canada

India

Japan

France

Netherlands

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.

🔥 13rd most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
🔥 13rd most popular in the United Kingdom in the Standards category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Australia in the Standards category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Canada in the Standards category.
🔥 13rd most popular in India in the Standards category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

YAML is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty, while Less is more commonly used on sports, forum, bulletin boards, and health sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Business

Sports

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#19

#101

#198

#268

#489

Name

Rank

#13

#49

#51

#76

#134