🆚 XHTML vs. XML
- 📈 XHTML is much more popular than XML.
- 🌍 XHTML is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ XML is particularly popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
XHTMLType
Standard
Standard
About
HTMLExtensible 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
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
XHTML is 14 times more popular than XML.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
XHTML is more popular than XML in all countries.
United States
Japan
Germany
China
Russia
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Korea
Poland
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in China in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Brunei Darussalam in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Hong Kong in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Standards category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Switzerland in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
XHTML is more popular than XML in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
CSS
XFN
JSON
YAML🗃️ 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.