🆚 Markdown vs. YAML
- 📈 YAML is much more popular than Markdown.
- 🌎 YAML is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Markdown is more popular in Iran, Saint Helena, and Liechtenstein.
Markdown
YAMLType
About
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.
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
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🔥 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.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in the United Kingdom in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Australia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in India in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Indonesia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Pakistan in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
CSS
HTML
GraphQL
Sass
JSON
XML🗃️ 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.