⚡ Standards in Iraq

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

Iraq is a Western Asian country with a population of over 45 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 98.7% of websites from Iraq.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is CSS with an impressive share of 97.9%, followed by HTML with 96.4% and Open Graph with 51.2%.

CSS 97.9%
HTML 96.4%
Open Graph 51.2%
JSON 38.8%
RSD 31.1%
DNS Prefetch 26.7%
Preconnect 25.4%
SearchAction 21.3%
XFN 21.1%
Preload 21.1%
Speculation Rules 16.6%
Pingback 11.7%
XHTML 3%
Prefetch 2.8%
YAML 2.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

7. Preconnect ^(-1)
9. XFN ^(-1)
14. Prefetch ^(-3)
16. OpenSearch ^(-3)
17. CGI ^(-6)
18. RDF ^(-15)
20. Sass ^(-2)
22. Text ^(-5)
24. Less ^(-1)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 28 standards used on sites from Iraq, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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.	97.9%
2	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.	96.4%
3	Open Graph Menlo Park, California, United States Enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.	51.2%
4	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	38.8%
5	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	31.1%
6	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	26.7%
7	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	25.4%
8	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	21.3%
9	XFN An HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.	21.1%
10	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	21.1%
11	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	16.6%
12	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	11.7%
13	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	3%
14	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	2.8%
15	YAML A data serialization language designed to be human friendly and work well with modern programming languages for common everyday tasks.	2.3%
16	OpenSearch Seattle, Washington, United States A specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.	1.9%
17	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	1.1%
18	RDF Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A W3C standard model to describe and exchange graph data on the web.	0.9%
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.	0.6%
20	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	0.4%
21	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	0.4%
22	Text Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The plain text document format.	0.2%
23	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.	0.2%
24	Less A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.	0.2%
25	Trace Context Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Standards in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 475 websites from Iraq.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.