⚡ Standards in Australia

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

Australia is an Oceanian country with a population of over 27 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 90.9% of websites from Australia.

Statistics based on 81K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is CSS with an impressive share of 98.3%, followed by HTML with 97.1% and Open Graph with 69.5%.

CSS 98.3%
HTML 97.1%
Open Graph 69.5%
JSON 57.3%
DNS Prefetch 46.5%
Speculation Rules 42.5%
RSD 42.1%
SearchAction 41.6%
Preconnect 34.8%
Preload 30.1%
XFN 25%
Pingback 18.2%
YAML 8.6%
GraphQL 2.4%
Prefetch 2.4%

🚀 Highlights

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

6. Speculation Rules ^(-2)
13. YAML ^(-1)
14. GraphQL ^(-3)
17. Sass ^(-6)
18. Trace Context ^(-3)
20. CGI ^(-5)
21. RDF ^(-1)
22. Humans.txt ^(-9)
23. Sitemap ^(-5)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 50 standards used on sites from Australia, 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.	98.3%
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.	97.1%
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.	69.5%
4	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	57.3%
5	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML <link> elements instructs web browsers to resolve domain names for external resources before those resources are requested.	46.5%
6	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States A browser API that improves navigation performance by prefetching or prerendering pages that users are likely to visit next.	42.5%
7	RSD Wesley Hills, New York, United States An XML format that allows client software to discover services provided by web publishing systems.	42.1%
8	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	41.6%
9	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML <link> elements instructs browsers to establish early connections to external origins before resources are requested.	34.8%
10	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML <link> elements instructs web browsers to fetch important resources early before they are requested during page rendering.	30.1%
11	XFN United States An HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.	25%
12	Pingback An XML-RPC-based protocol that allows websites to notify each other when one links to another.	18.2%
13	YAML Seattle, Washington, United States A human-readable data serialization language designed for representing structured data and exchanging it between systems and programming languages.	8.6%
14	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	2.4%
15	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML <link> elements tells the browser to download resources that are likely to be needed for future navigation when the current page is idle.	2.4%
16	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	2.3%
17	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	1.6%
18	Trace Context Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.	1.5%
19	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.	1.2%
20	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	1%
21	RDF Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A W3C standard model for describing and exchanging graph-based data on the web.	0.7%
22	Humans.txt Spain A plain text file that allows website creators to identify and credit the people involved in developing a website.	0.6%
23	Sitemap A specialized XML file that lists a website's URLs and helps search engines discover pages available for crawling and indexing.	0.6%
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.	0.6%
25	OpenSearch Seattle, Washington, United States A specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.	0.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 Standards 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 81,896 websites from Australia.
We currently track the presence of 54 standards across the web.
Of these, 50 were detected on websites from Australia.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.