📈 Standards Ranked #26–#48 in Belgium

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

Belgium is a Western European country with a population of over 12 million people.

The following list shows the standards ranked from 26th to 48th out of 48 used on websites in Belgium.

RankNameMarket share
26
Sitemap

A file in XML format that allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling.

27
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.

28
OpenAPI
San Francisco, California, United States

A specification language for defining HTTP APIs, typically written in YAML or JSON.

29
Markdown
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

A markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents.

30
RelMeAuth

A proposed open standard for using rel-me links to profiles on OAuth supporting services to authenticate via either those profiles or your own site.

31
XML
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data.

32
CGI
Wilmington, Delaware, United States

An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.

33
RDF
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A W3C standard model to describe and exchange graph data on the web.

34
Prerender

The rel="prerender" attribute on HTML elements.

35
Rack

A minimal, modular interface and invocation convention that operates between Ruby web servers and web applications to standardize how HTTP requests and responses are exchanged.

FreeOpen source
36
JSON Web Token
Fremont, California, United States

An open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a compact and self-contained way for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object.

37
Webmention
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A simple protocol to notify any URL when a website links to it, and for web pages to request notifications when somebody links to them.

38
OpenTelemetry
San Francisco, California, United States

A vendor- and tool-agnostic observability framework and toolkit for creating and managing telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs.

39
WebAssembly

A portable binary code format that can be run in modern web browsers with near-native performance.

40
LLMs.txt

A proposed standard that provides structured content and instructions to guide large language models in understanding and summarizing a website's content.

41
IDN

Internationalized Domain Names allow people around the world to use domain names in local languages, such as Arabic, Chinese, or Cyrillic.

42
ESI
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A simple markup language used to define web page components for dynamic assembly and delivery of web applications at the edge of the Internet.

43
AdChoices
New Providence, New Jersey, United States

A self-regulatory standard for online interest-based advertising that gives consumers enhanced control over the collection and use of their data to deliver relevant ads.

44
ActivityPub

A decentralized social networking protocol used by various fediverse services such as Mastodon, Pixelfed, and PeerTube.

45
Onion

Sites are websites on the dark web that use the .onion top-level domain and are only accessible through online routing through Tor.

46
XMP
San Jose, California, United States

An ISO standard for creating, processing, and exchanging metadata for digital documents.

47
Micropub
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

An HTTP-based client-server protocol used to create, update, and delete posts on servers using third-party clients.

48
IndieAuth
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A decentralized identity protocol built on top of OAuth 2.0.

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Data is based on the analysis of 26,849 websites from Belgium.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.