⚡ 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.

Statistics based on 230 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 96.9% and JSON with 50.7%.

HTML 97.3%
CSS 96.9%
JSON 50.7%
RSD 44.9%
DNS Prefetch 38.7%
Open Graph 37.8%
XFN 28.9%
Preconnect 26.7%
Preload 24.4%
Speculation Rules 23.1%
Pingback 18.2%
SearchAction 16.9%
XHTML 1.8%
Sass 1.3%
OAuth 1.3%

🚀 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.	96.9%
3	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	50.7%
4	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	44.9%
5	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	38.7%
6	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.	37.8%
7	XFN An HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.	28.9%
8	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	26.7%
9	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	24.4%
10	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	23.1%
11	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	18.2%
12	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	16.9%
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.	1.3%
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.	1.3%
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.	1.3%
17	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	1.3%
18	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%
19	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	0.9%
20	YAML Seattle, Washington, United States A human-readable data serialization language designed for representing structured data and exchanging it between systems and programming languages.	0.9%
21	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.	0.4%
22	Less A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.	0.4%
23	Trace Context Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.	0.4%
24	WebAssembly Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A portable binary instruction format that runs in modern web browsers with near-native performance, enabling frontend coding in languages that were not traditionally used for web interfaces, such as C/C++, C#, and Rust.	0.4%
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.	0.4%

👉 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 230 websites from Ethiopia.
We currently track the presence of 54 standards across the web.
Of these, 26 were detected on websites from Ethiopia.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.