⚡ Standards in Guernsey

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

Guernsey is a Western European island British Crown Dependency with a population of around 67 thousand people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 92.5% of websites from Guernsey.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is HTML with an impressive share of 98.4%, followed by CSS with 97.3% and Preconnect with 57.6%.

HTML 98.4%
CSS 97.3%
Preconnect 57.6%
Acceptable Ads 47.8%
Open Graph 30.4%
JSON 15.2%
SearchAction 10.3%
RSD 9.2%
DNS Prefetch 9.2%
Preload 8.7%
Speculation Rules 7.1%
XFN 5.4%
Pingback 4.9%
Humans.txt 2.2%
GraphQL 1.6%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. HTML ^(-1)
3. Preconnect ^(-5)
4. Acceptable Ads ^(-11)
14. Humans.txt ^(-16)
15. GraphQL ^(-5)
18. RelMeAuth ^(-11)
19. CGI ^(-4)
21. Sass ^(-1)
23. Webmention ^(-16)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of 23 standards used on sites from Guernsey, 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.	98.4%
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	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	57.6%
4	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.	47.8%
5	Open Graph Menlo Park, California, United States Enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.	30.4%
6	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	15.2%
7	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	10.3%
8	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	9.2%
9	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	9.2%
10	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	8.7%
11	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	7.1%
12	XFN An HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.	5.4%
13	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	4.9%
14	Humans.txt A text file that can be created by developers to list the people who have contributed to a website.	2.2%
15	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	1.6%
16	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	1.6%
17	YAML A data serialization language designed to be human friendly and work well with modern programming languages for common everyday tasks.	1.1%
18	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%
19	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	0.5%
20	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	0.5%
21	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	0.5%
22	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.	0.5%
23	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.	0.5%

Data is based on the analysis of 199 websites from Guernsey.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.