⚡ Semantic Markup in Iraq

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.

Iraq is a Western Asian country with a population of over 45 million people.

According to our research, semantic markup technologies are used on 82.6% of websites from Iraq.

Statistics based on 505 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is ARIA with an impressive share of 89.4%, followed by Open Graph with 60.2% and Twitter Cards with 42.9%.

ARIA 89.4%
Open Graph 60.2%
Twitter Cards 42.9%
oEmbed 34.3%
JSON-LD 31.9%
SearchAction 25.2%
Microdata 16.3%
Microformats 1.4%
RDFa 1%
Dublin Core 1%
Microformats2 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top technologies that are more popular in Iraq than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

4. oEmbed ^(-1)
9. RDFa ^(-1)

✨ Best Semantic Markup Technologies

Below is a more detailed list of 11 semantic markup technologies used on sites from Iraq, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	ARIA Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A W3C technical specification that defines how to improve the accessibility of web content and applications, particularly those with dynamic interfaces and custom controls.	89.4%
2	Open Graph Menlo Park, California, United States A web metadata standard that defines how webpages are described as structured objects for use in social graphs and enables their consistent representation.	60.2%
3	Twitter Cards Bastrop, Texas, United States A metadata format used by X, originally Twitter, that enables links in posts to display rich previews with images, videos, and interactive media to increase engagement and traffic.	42.9%
4	oEmbed San Francisco, California, United States An open format that allows websites to embed representations of external URLs such as videos, images, and posts from third-party services.	34.3%
5	JSON-LD Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A lightweight linked data format used to embed structured data into web pages in a machine-readable form.	31.9%
6	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	25.2%
7	Microdata Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An HTML specification used to embed structured metadata within web page content by annotating elements with machine-readable attributes.	16.3%
8	Microformats San Francisco, California, United States Microformats (μF) are a set of standardized HTML class names and attributes used to embed descriptive metadata within existing page content for entities such as people, events, reviews, and blog posts.	1.4%
9	RDFa Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An extension to HTML5 that embeds structured metadata within page content by adding attributes based on the RDF data model.	1%
10	Dublin Core Roseville, Minnesota, United States A metadata element set used to describe documents and other digital or physical resources in a standardized way.	1%
11	Microformats2 San Francisco, California, United States The second generation of the Microformats specification designed to make publishing and parsing structured data in HTML easier for both authors and developers.	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Semantic Markup in other countries

🗃️ 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 505 websites from Iraq.
We currently track the presence of 14 semantic markup technologies across the web.
Of these, 11 were detected on websites from Iraq.
Statistics were last calculated on May 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.