⚡ 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 93.9% of websites from Jamaica.

Statistics based on 294 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 97.5%, followed by HTML with 94.2% and JSON with 58%.

CSS 97.5%
HTML 94.2%
JSON 58%
DNS Prefetch 44.9%
RSD 44.9%
Open Graph 44.2%
XFN 33.3%
Preconnect 30.1%
SearchAction 27.5%
Speculation Rules 27.2%
Preload 25%
Pingback 17.8%
XHTML 3.3%
OAuth 2.5%
YAML 1.8%

🚀 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)
10. Speculation Rules ^(-1)
14. OAuth ^(-2)
16. GraphQL ^(-4)
17. CGI ^(-6)
18. Sass ^(-4)
19. OpenID ^(-5)
20. RDF ^(-13)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 26 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.	97.5%
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.	94.2%
3	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	58%
4	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.	44.9%
5	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	44.9%
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.	44.2%
7	XFN United States An HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding relationship metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.	33.3%
8	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.	30.1%
9	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	27.5%
10	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	27.2%
11	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.	25%
12	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	17.8%
13	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	3.3%
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.	2.5%
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.	1.8%
16	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	1.1%
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	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	0.7%
19	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.	0.7%
20	RDF Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A W3C standard model for describing and exchanging graph-based data on the web.	0.4%
21	Humans.txt A text file that can be created by developers to list the people who have contributed to a website.	0.4%
22	Less A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.	0.4%
23	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%
24	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.	0.4%
25	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%

🗃️ 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 294 websites from Jamaica.
We currently track the presence of 54 standards across the web.
Of these, 26 were detected on websites from Jamaica.
Statistics were last calculated on May 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.