⚡ Standards in Italy

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

Italy is a Southern European country with a population of around 59 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 92.3% of websites from Italy.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is CSS with an impressive share of 96.9%, followed by HTML with 94.3% and Open Graph with 60.9%.

CSS 96.9%
HTML 94.3%
Open Graph 60.9%
RSD 46.5%
JSON 46.1%
DNS Prefetch 42.6%
SearchAction 40.6%
XFN 29.5%
Preconnect 24.2%
Pingback 22.1%
Preload 21%
Speculation Rules 15.7%
XHTML 4.6%
IAB TCF 2%
YAML 1.8%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. RSD ^(-1)
8. XFN ^(-2)
10. Pingback ^(-2)
14. IAB TCF ^(-4)
16. OpenSearch ^(-3)
20. Trace Context ^(-1)
22. CGI ^(-1)
23. OpenID ^(-1)
24. Less ^(-1)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 51 standards used on sites from Italy, 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.	96.9%
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.	94.3%
3	Open Graph Menlo Park, California, United States Enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.	60.9%
4	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	46.5%
5	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	46.1%
6	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	42.6%
7	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	40.6%
8	XFN An HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.	29.5%
9	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	24.2%
10	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	22.1%
11	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	21%
12	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	15.7%
13	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	4.6%
14	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.	2%
15	YAML A data serialization language designed to be human friendly and work well with modern programming languages for common everyday tasks.	1.8%
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.	1.3%
17	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	1.2%
18	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.	1.1%
19	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.	0.8%
20	Trace Context Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.	0.7%
21	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	0.7%
22	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	0.6%
23	OpenID San Ramon, California, United States A decentralized authentication protocol based on OAuth 2.0 that enables applications to verify a user's identity through an external identity provider instead of managing credentials directly.	0.6%
24	Less A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.	0.5%
25	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	0.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 Standards in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 87,898 websites from Italy.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.