⚡ Standards in Afghanistan

Web standards are a set of guidelines and specifications that define and describe various aspects of the World Wide Web.

Afghanistan is a South Central Asian country with a population of over 43 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 94.3% of websites from Afghanistan.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top standards on websites in Afghanistan in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is CSS with an impressive share of 97.1%, followed by HTML with 93.4% and Open Graph with 56%.

CSS 97.1%
HTML 93.4%
Open Graph 56%
RSD 50%
JSON 45.5%
SearchAction 43.3%
DNS Prefetch 32.7%
XFN 31.7%
Pingback 25.1%
Preload 18.8%
Preconnect 17%
Speculation Rules 10.5%
XHTML 5.6%
OpenSearch 1.6%
Prefetch 1.5%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. RSD ^(-1)
6. SearchAction ^(-1)
8. XFN ^(-2)
9. Pingback ^(-3)
14. OpenSearch ^(-5)
15. Prefetch ^(-2)
16. CGI ^(-7)
17. Sitemap ^(-9)
19. Sass ^(-3)
22. Text ^(-5)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 30 standards used on sites from Afghanistan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	CSS Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A stylesheet language used to control the presentation of HTML and XML documents, defining layout, colors, typography, and responsive behavior across different devices.	97.1%
2	HTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A markup language used to create web pages and is the de facto standard for documents displayed in web browsers.	93.4%
3	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.	56%
4	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	50%
5	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	45.5%
6	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	43.3%
7	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	32.7%
8	XFN An HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.	31.7%
9	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	25.1%
10	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	18.8%
11	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	17%
12	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	10.5%
13	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	5.6%
14	OpenSearch Seattle, Washington, United States A specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.	1.6%
15	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	1.5%
16	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	0.8%
17	Sitemap A file in XML format that allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling.	0.8%
18	OAuth Fremont, California, United States An open standard authorization protocol that allows applications to obtain limited access to user accounts without sharing passwords across web, mobile, and desktop environments.	0.8%
19	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	0.6%
20	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	0.5%
21	Acceptable Ads Berlin, Germany A set of criteria defined by the independent Acceptable Ads Committee that allows publishers to reach ad-blocking users with respectful, non-intrusive and relevant ads.	0.5%
22	Text Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The plain text document format.	0.4%
23	IAB TCF Brussels, Belgium An open-source industry standard developed by IAB Europe that helps companies comply with GDPR and ePrivacy requirements when processing personal data in digital advertising ecosystems.	0.4%
24	OpenID San Ramon, California, United States A decentralized authentication protocol based on OAuth 2.0 that enables applications to verify a user's identity through an external identity provider instead of managing credentials directly.	0.4%
25	IDN Internationalized Domain Names allow people around the world to use domain names in local languages, such as Arabic, Chinese, or Cyrillic.	0.3%

Data is based on the analysis of 1,079 websites from Afghanistan.
Statistics were last calculated on March 30, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.