⚡ 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 98.8% of websites from Iraq.

Statistics based on 509 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 98%, followed by HTML with 96.4% and Open Graph with 50.1%.

CSS 98%
HTML 96.4%
Open Graph 50.1%
JSON 38.4%
RSD 30.6%
DNS Prefetch 26.4%
Preconnect 25.8%
Preload 21.3%
SearchAction 21.1%
XFN 20.7%
Speculation Rules 16.9%
Pingback 11.5%
XHTML 3%
Prefetch 3%
YAML 2.2%

🚀 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)
8. Preload ^(-1)
14. Prefetch ^(-3)
16. OpenSearch ^(-3)
17. RDF ^(-5)
18. CGI ^(-6)
19. GraphQL ^(-1)
21. WebAssembly ^(-17)
22. Sass ^(-1)
23. Text ^(-5)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 29 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.	98%
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 A web metadata standard that defines how webpages are described as structured objects for use in social graphs and enables their consistent representation.	50.1%
4	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	38.4%
5	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.	30.6%
6	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.	26.4%
7	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.	25.8%
8	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.	21.3%
9	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	21.1%
10	XFN United States An HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.	20.7%
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.	16.9%
12	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	11.5%
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 tells the browser to download resources that are likely to be needed for future navigation when the current page is idle.	3%
15	YAML Seattle, Washington, United States A human-readable data serialization language designed for representing structured data and exchanging it between systems and programming languages.	2.2%
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.	1.8%
17	RDF Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A W3C standard model for describing and exchanging graph-based data on the web.	1.8%
18	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	1%
19	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	0.8%
20	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%
21	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%
22	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	0.4%
23	Text Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The plain text document format.	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

🗃️ 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 509 websites from Iraq.
We currently track the presence of 54 standards across the web.
Of these, 29 were detected on websites from Iraq.
Statistics were last calculated on June 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.