⚡ Standards in Ethiopia

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

Ethiopia is an East African country with a population of over 127 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 97.8% of websites from Ethiopia.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is HTML with an impressive share of 97.3%, followed by CSS with 97.3% and JSON with 51.1%.

HTML 97.3%
CSS 97.3%
JSON 51.1%
RSD 45.7%
DNS Prefetch 39.7%
Open Graph 38.4%
XFN 29.2%
Preconnect 26.5%
Preload 24.7%
Speculation Rules 22.8%
Pingback 18.7%
SearchAction 17.4%
XHTML 1.8%
Sass 1.4%
OAuth 1.4%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. HTML ^(-1)
3. JSON ^(-1)
4. RSD ^(-1)
5. DNS Prefetch ^(-1)
7. XFN ^(-3)
10. Speculation Rules ^(-1)
11. Pingback ^(-1)
14. Sass ^(-8)
15. OAuth ^(-1)
16. IAB TCF ^(-2)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 26 standards used on sites from Ethiopia, 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.	97.3%
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.	97.3%
3	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	51.1%
4	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	45.7%
5	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	39.7%
6	Open Graph Menlo Park, California, United States Enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.	38.4%
7	XFN An HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.	29.2%
8	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	26.5%
9	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	24.7%
10	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	22.8%
11	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	18.7%
12	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	17.4%
13	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	1.8%
14	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	1.4%
15	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.	1.4%
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.	1.4%
17	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	1.4%
18	YAML A data serialization language designed to be human friendly and work well with modern programming languages for common everyday tasks.	0.9%
19	OpenSearch Seattle, Washington, United States A specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.	0.9%
20	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	0.9%
21	Less A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.	0.5%
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.	0.5%
23	Trace Context Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.	0.5%
24	WebAssembly A portable binary code format that can be run in modern web browsers with near-native performance.	0.5%
25	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.	0.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 Standards in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 224 websites from Ethiopia.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.