⚡ Standards in Jamaica

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

Jamaica is a Caribbean country with a population of around 2.8 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 94.2% of websites from Jamaica.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is CSS with an impressive share of 97.3%, followed by HTML with 93.8% and JSON with 56%.

CSS 97.3%
HTML 93.8%
JSON 56%
DNS Prefetch 44%
RSD 43.6%
Open Graph 42.9%
XFN 33.2%
Preconnect 29%
SearchAction 26.6%
Preload 24.3%
Speculation Rules 23.6%
Pingback 18.1%
XHTML 3.5%
OAuth 2.7%
YAML 1.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. JSON ^(-1)
4. DNS Prefetch ^(-2)
7. XFN ^(-3)
14. OAuth ^(-2)
16. GraphQL ^(-4)
17. CGI ^(-6)
18. OpenID ^(-6)
19. Sass ^(-3)
20. WebAssembly ^(-18)
21. Sitemap ^(-5)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 25 standards used on sites from Jamaica, 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.	97.3%
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.	93.8%
3	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	56%
4	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	44%
5	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	43.6%
6	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.	42.9%
7	XFN An HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.	33.2%
8	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	29%
9	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	26.6%
10	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	24.3%
11	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	23.6%
12	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	18.1%
13	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	3.5%
14	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.	2.7%
15	YAML Seattle, Washington, United States A data serialization language designed to be human friendly and work well with modern programming languages for common everyday tasks.	1.9%
16	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	1.2%
17	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	1.2%
18	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.	0.8%
19	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	0.8%
20	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%
21	Sitemap A file in XML format that allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling.	0.4%
22	Less A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.	0.4%
23	Humans.txt A text file that can be created by developers to list the people who have contributed to a website.	0.4%
24	XML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing structured data in a platform-independent way.	0.4%
25	RDF Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A W3C standard model to describe and exchange graph data on the web.	0.4%

Data is based on the analysis of 275 websites from Jamaica.
Statistics were last calculated on March 30, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.