⚡ Standards in Germany

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

Germany is a Central European country with a population of around 84 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 86% of websites from Germany.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is HTML with an impressive share of 93.5%, followed by CSS with 92.8% and Open Graph with 49%.

HTML 93.5%
CSS 92.8%
Open Graph 49%
JSON 33.2%
RSD 29.4%
SearchAction 24.3%
Preload 21.1%
DNS Prefetch 20%
XFN 19.1%
Pingback 14%
Preconnect 12.7%
Speculation Rules 10.4%
XHTML 5%
Acceptable Ads 5%
YAML 1.8%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. HTML ^(-1)
6. SearchAction ^(-1)
7. Preload ^(-2)
9. XFN ^(-1)
10. Pingback ^(-2)
14. Acceptable Ads ^(-1)
16. IAB TCF ^(-2)
17. OpenSearch ^(-2)
21. XML ^(-7)
22. RelMeAuth ^(-7)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 53 standards used on sites from Germany, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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.	93.5%
2	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.	92.8%
3	Open Graph Menlo Park, California, United States Enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.	49%
4	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	33.2%
5	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	29.4%
6	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	24.3%
7	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	21.1%
8	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	20%
9	XFN An HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.	19.1%
10	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	14%
11	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	12.7%
12	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	10.4%
13	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	5%
14	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.	5%
15	YAML A data serialization language designed to be human friendly and work well with modern programming languages for common everyday tasks.	1.8%
16	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.	1.5%
17	OpenSearch Seattle, Washington, United States A specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.	1.4%
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.	1.2%
19	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	1%
20	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	0.8%
21	XML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data.	0.8%
22	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.	0.6%
23	Less A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.	0.6%
24	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	0.5%
25	Trace Context Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.	0.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 Standards in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 225,538 websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.