⚡ Semantic Markup in Canada

Semantic markup is code added to web pages to describe the meaning of content elements and their relationships, giving search engines and other systems clearer context beyond visual layout.

Canada is a North American country with a population of over 40 million people.

According to our research, semantic markup technologies are used on 72.9% of websites from Canada.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top semantic markup technologies in Canada in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is ARIA with an impressive share of 90.8%, followed by Open Graph with 74.4% and Twitter Cards with 59.5%.

✨ Best Semantic Markup Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 13 semantic markup technologies used on sites from Canada, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
ARIA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A technical specification that defines how to improve the accessibility of web pages.
2
Open Graph
Menlo Park, California, United States

Enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.
3
Twitter Cards
Bastrop, Texas, United States

With Twitter Cards, you can attach rich photos, videos and media experiences to tweets, helping to drive traffic to your website.
4
JSON-LD
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A lightweight linked data format used to embed structured data into web pages.
5
oEmbed

A format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites.
6
SearchAction
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.
7
Microdata
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

An HTML specification that is used to nest metadata within a document, in parallel with the existing content.
8
Microformats

A set of defined HTML classes and attributes created to serve as descriptive metadata about an element, representing commonly published things like people, events, blog posts, reviews, and so on.
9
Dublin Core

A metadata element set used for documents and other objects.
10
RDFa
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

An extension to HTML5 that adds attributes to markup things like people, places, events, recipes, and reviews.
11
Microformats2

A set of defined HTML classes and attributes created to serve as descriptive metadata about an element, representing commonly published things like people, events, blog posts, reviews, and so on.
12
Product Ontology

The Product Types Ontology provides 300,000 definitions for types of product or services that extend the schema.org and GoodRelations standards for e-commerce markup.
13
GoodRelations

A standardized vocabulary for product, price, store, and company data that can be embedded into web pages.

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 66,580 websites from Canada.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.