⚡ Standards in Malta

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

Malta is a Southern European island country with a population of around 540 thousand people.

According to our statistics, standards are detected on 91.7% of websites from Malta.

Statistics based on 1K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is CSS with an impressive share of 98.4%, followed by HTML with 96.5% and ARIA with 74.7%.

CSS 98.4%
HTML 96.5%
ARIA 74.7%
Open Graph 66.4%
JSON 47.8%
SearchAction 42.7%
oEmbed 40.5%
DNS Prefetch 40.3%
RSD 40%
Speculation Rules 36.1%
Preconnect 25.8%
Preload 23%
XFN 22.8%
Pingback 15%
XHTML 2.8%

🚀 Highlights

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

6. SearchAction ^(-2)
7. oEmbed ^(-2)
16. Prefetch ^(-1)
19. OpenID ^(-7)
20. Sass ^(-5)
21. Trace Context ^(-2)
22. Markdown ^(-7)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 39 standards used on sites from Malta, 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.	98.4%
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.	96.5%
3	ARIA Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A technical specification from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative that defines how to improve the accessibility of web content and applications, particularly those with dynamic interfaces and custom controls.	74.7%
4	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.	66.4%
5	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	47.8%
6	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	42.7%
7	oEmbed San Francisco, California, United States An open format that allows websites to embed representations of external URLs such as videos, images, and posts from third-party services.	40.5%
8	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML <link> elements instructs web browsers to resolve domain names for external resources before those resources are requested.	40.3%
9	RSD Wesley Hills, New York, United States An XML format that allows client software to discover services provided by web publishing systems.	40%
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.	36.1%
11	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML <link> elements instructs browsers to establish early connections to external origins before resources are requested.	25.8%
12	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML <link> elements instructs web browsers to fetch important resources early before they are requested during page rendering.	23%
13	XFN United States An HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.	22.8%
14	Pingback An XML-RPC-based protocol that allows websites to notify each other when one links to another.	15%
15	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	2.8%
16	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML <link> elements tells the browser to download resources that are likely to be needed for future navigation when the current page is idle.	2.4%
17	YAML Seattle, Washington, United States A human-readable data serialization language designed for representing structured data and exchanging it between systems and programming languages.	2.3%
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.	1.9%
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.	1.5%
20	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	1.1%
21	Trace Context Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.	0.9%
22	Markdown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States A lightweight markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents using simple, human-readable syntax.	0.7%
23	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.	0.6%
24	OpenSearch Seattle, Washington, United States A specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.	0.6%
25	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	0.6%

🗃️ 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 1,732 websites from Malta.
We currently track the presence of 56 standards across the web.
Of these, 39 were detected on websites from Malta.
Statistics were last calculated on October 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.