⚡ Standards in China

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

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 92.8% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 83K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is CSS with an impressive share of 87.1%, followed by HTML with 85.2% and XHTML with 13.9%.

CSS 87.1%
HTML 85.2%
XHTML 13.9%
Open Graph 12.3%
DNS Prefetch 7.9%
Preload 5.6%
Preconnect 5%
SearchAction 4.4%
RSD 4.4%
JSON 4.3%
XFN 3.1%
Speculation Rules 2.3%
Pingback 1.6%
Prefetch 1%
YAML 0.7%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. XHTML ^(-10)
5. DNS Prefetch ^(-1)
6. Preload ^(-3)
7. Preconnect ^(-1)
14. Prefetch ^(-3)
18. Text ^(-9)
19. Less ^(-6)
20. Markdown ^(-10)
23. Sitemap ^(-3)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 48 standards used on sites from China, 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.	87.1%
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.	85.2%
3	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	13.9%
4	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.	12.3%
5	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	7.9%
6	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	5.6%
7	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	5%
8	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	4.4%
9	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	4.4%
10	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	4.3%
11	XFN An HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.	3.1%
12	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	2.3%
13	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	1.6%
14	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	1%
15	YAML Seattle, Washington, United States A human-readable data serialization language designed for representing structured data and exchanging it between systems and programming languages.	0.7%
16	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.	0.7%
17	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.	0.6%
18	Text Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The plain text document format.	0.6%
19	Less A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.	0.3%
20	Markdown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States A lightweight markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents using simple, human-readable syntax.	0.2%
21	OpenSearch Seattle, Washington, United States A specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.	0.2%
22	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	0.2%
23	Sitemap A file in XML format that allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling.	0.2%
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.	0.1%
25	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	0.1%

👉 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 83,408 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 54 standards across the web.
Of these, 48 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.