⚡ 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 93.1% of websites from Guernsey.

Statistics based on 204 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 97.4% and Preconnect with 56.8%.

HTML 98.4%
CSS 97.4%
Preconnect 56.8%
Acceptable Ads 46.3%
Open Graph 31.6%
JSON 15.3%
SearchAction 10%
RSD 8.9%
DNS Prefetch 8.9%
Preload 8.4%
Speculation Rules 6.8%
XFN 5.3%
Pingback 4.7%
Humans.txt 2.1%
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 ^(-18)
15. GraphQL ^(-5)
18. RelMeAuth ^(-12)
20. RDF ^(-2)
21. CGI ^(-3)
24. Webmention ^(-16)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of 24 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.	97.4%
3	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements instructs browsers to establish early connections to external origins before resources are requested.	56.8%
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.	46.3%
5	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.	31.6%
6	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	15.3%
7	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	10%
8	RSD Wesley Hills, New York, United States An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	8.9%
9	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements instructs web browsers to resolve domain names for external resources before those resources are requested.	8.9%
10	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements instructs web browsers to fetch important resources early before they are requested during page rendering.	8.4%
11	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States A browser API that improves navigation performance by prefetching or prerendering pages that users are likely to visit next.	6.8%
12	XFN United States An HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.	5.3%
13	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	4.7%
14	Humans.txt Spain A plain text file that allows website creators to identify and credit the people involved in developing a website.	2.1%
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 Seattle, Washington, United States A human-readable data serialization language designed for representing structured data and exchanging it between systems and programming languages.	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	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%
20	RDF Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A W3C standard model for describing and exchanging graph-based data on the web.	0.5%
21	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	0.5%
22	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements tells the browser to download resources that are likely to be needed for future navigation when the current page is idle.	0.5%
23	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	0.5%
24	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%

🗃️ 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 204 websites from Guernsey.
We currently track the presence of 54 standards across the web.
Of these, 24 were detected on websites from Guernsey.
Statistics were last calculated on June 19, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.