⚡ Standards in Namibia

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

Namibia is a Southern African country with a population of over 2.6 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are detected on 95.6% of websites from Namibia.

Statistics based on 479 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is CSS with an impressive share of 96.5%, followed by HTML with 96.3% and ARIA with 79.5%.

CSS 96.5%
HTML 96.3%
ARIA 79.5%
Open Graph 55.9%
JSON 51.3%
oEmbed 40.6%
RSD 40.4%
DNS Prefetch 38.6%
Speculation Rules 34.1%
Preload 28.2%
SearchAction 26.9%
Preconnect 26.9%
XFN 23.6%
Pingback 18.8%
XHTML 3.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

6. oEmbed ^(-3)
9. Speculation Rules ^(-1)
10. Preload ^(-2)
16. OpenSearch ^(-6)
18. RDF ^(-6)
21. Sass ^(-4)
23. CGI ^(-4)
24. OpenID ^(-2)
25. RelMeAuth ^(-6)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 27 standards used on sites from Namibia, 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.	96.5%
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.	96.3%
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.	79.5%
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.	55.9%
5	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	51.3%
6	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.	40.6%
7	RSD Wesley Hills, New York, United States An XML format that allows client software to discover services provided by web publishing systems.	40.4%
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.	38.6%
9	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.	34.1%
10	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.	28.2%
11	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	26.9%
12	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.	26.9%
13	XFN United States An HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.	23.6%
14	Pingback An XML-RPC-based protocol that allows websites to notify each other when one links to another.	18.8%
15	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	3.1%
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.	2%
17	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.	1.5%
18	RDF Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A W3C standard model for describing and exchanging graph-based data on the web.	1.1%
19	YAML Seattle, Washington, United States A human-readable data serialization language designed for representing structured data and exchanging it between systems and programming languages.	1.1%
20	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%
21	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	1.1%
22	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.	0.7%
23	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	0.4%
24	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.	0.4%
25	RelMeAuth A proposed open standard for using rel-me links to profiles on OAuth supporting services to authenticate via either those profiles or your own site.	0.2%

🗃️ 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 479 websites from Namibia.
We currently track the presence of 56 standards across the web.
Of these, 27 were detected on websites from Namibia.
Statistics were last calculated on October 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.