⚡ Standards in Sri Lanka

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

Sri Lanka is a South Asian country with a population of around 22 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 96.9% of websites from Sri Lanka.

Statistics based on 2K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is CSS with an impressive share of 97.6%, followed by HTML with 95.8% and Open Graph with 54.8%.

CSS 97.6%
HTML 95.8%
Open Graph 54.8%
JSON 43.5%
DNS Prefetch 40.6%
RSD 40%
Preconnect 29%
SearchAction 28.6%
XFN 26.3%
Speculation Rules 24.2%
Preload 21.7%
Pingback 15.3%
XHTML 3.5%
YAML 2.9%
OAuth 1.5%

🚀 Highlights

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

5. DNS Prefetch ^(-1)
7. Preconnect ^(-1)
9. XFN ^(-1)
10. Speculation Rules ^(-1)
15. OAuth ^(-1)
16. Sass ^(-6)
17. OpenSearch ^(-2)
18. CGI ^(-5)
19. OpenID ^(-5)
23. Sitemap ^(-3)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 38 standards used on sites from Sri Lanka, 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.	97.6%
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.	95.8%
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.	54.8%
4	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	43.5%
5	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.	40.6%
6	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.	40%
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.	29%
8	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	28.6%
9	XFN United States An HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.	26.3%
10	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.	24.2%
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.	21.7%
12	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	15.3%
13	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	3.5%
14	YAML Seattle, Washington, United States A human-readable data serialization language designed for representing structured data and exchanging it between systems and programming languages.	2.9%
15	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.	1.5%
16	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	1.5%
17	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%
18	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	1.2%
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.	1%
20	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.	1%
21	Trace Context Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.	0.6%
22	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	0.6%
23	Sitemap A specialized XML file that lists a website's URLs and helps search engines discover pages available for crawling and indexing.	0.5%
24	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.	0.4%
25	RDF Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A W3C standard model for describing and exchanging graph-based data on the web.	0.3%

🗃️ 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 2,273 websites from Sri Lanka.
We currently track the presence of 54 standards across the web.
Of these, 38 were detected on websites from Sri Lanka.
Statistics were last calculated on June 1, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.