Standards Ranked #25–#50 on the Web in France in 2026

📈 Standards Ranked #26–#50 in France

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

France is a Western European country with a population of around 69 million people.

The following list shows the standards ranked from 26th to 50th out of 52 used on websites in France.

Rank	Name	Market share
26	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	0.4%
27	Sitemap A file in XML format that allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling.	0.4%
28	Text Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The plain text document format.	0.4%
29	Humans.txt A text file that can be created by developers to list the people who have contributed to a website.	0.3%
30	OpenAPI San Francisco, California, United States A specification language for defining HTTP APIs, typically written in YAML or JSON.	0.3%
31	Markdown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States A markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents.	0.2%
32	XML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data.	0.2%
33	RDF Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A W3C standard model to describe and exchange graph data on the web.	0.2%
34	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.	0.2%
35	Prerender The rel="prerender" attribute on HTML elements.	0.1%
36	ActivityPub A decentralized social networking protocol used by various fediverse services such as Mastodon, Pixelfed, and PeerTube.	0.09%
37	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.	0.06%
38	LLMs.txt A proposed standard that provides structured content and instructions to guide large language models in understanding and summarizing a website's content.	0.05%
39	WebAssembly A portable binary code format that can be run in modern web browsers with near-native performance.	0.04%
40	IDN Internationalized Domain Names allow people around the world to use domain names in local languages, such as Arabic, Chinese, or Cyrillic.	0.04%
41	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.	0.04%
42	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	0.04%
43	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.	0.03%
44	Onion Sites are websites on the dark web that use the .onion top-level domain and are only accessible through online routing through Tor.	0.02%
45	XMP San Jose, California, United States An ISO standard for creating, processing, and exchanging metadata for digital documents.	0.02%
46	WCAG Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are a set of recommendations for making web content more accessible, developed by W3C.	0.009%
47	OpenPGP A non-proprietary protocol for encrypting email using public key cryptography.	0.007%
48	XRDS An XML-based file format that provides a list of service endpoints (e.g., OpenID) available on a website.	0.006%
49	IPFS Wilmington, Delaware, United States A peer-to-peer protocol for storing and accessing files and websites in a decentralized file system.	0.003%
50	IndieAuth Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A decentralized identity protocol built on top of OAuth 2.0.	0.002%

👉 See Also

🌎 Standards in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 111,745 websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.