⚡ Standards in the Netherlands

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

The Netherlands is a Western European country with a population of over 17.8 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 89.1% of websites from the Netherlands.

Statistics based on 100K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is CSS with an impressive share of 95.7%, followed by HTML with 95.3% and Open Graph with 58.8%.

CSS 95.7%
HTML 95.3%
Open Graph 58.8%
JSON 41.1%
RSD 34.8%
DNS Prefetch 33.8%
SearchAction 33.6%
Preconnect 26.6%
Preload 23.9%
XFN 22.1%
Pingback 16.1%
Speculation Rules 14%
YAML 3.6%
XHTML 3.6%
GraphQL 1.8%

🚀 Highlights

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

11. Pingback ^(-1)
13. YAML ^(-1)
15. GraphQL ^(-5)
16. Prefetch ^(-1)
17. Trace Context ^(-4)
18. OpenSearch ^(-1)
20. RDF ^(-2)
23. Humans.txt ^(-9)
24. OpenAPI ^(-9)
25. Less ^(-1)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 51 standards used on sites from the Netherlands, 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.	95.7%
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.	95.3%
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.	58.8%
4	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	41.1%
5	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.	34.8%
6	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.	33.8%
7	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	33.6%
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.	26.6%
9	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.	23.9%
10	XFN United States An HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.	22.1%
11	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	16.1%
12	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.	14%
13	YAML Seattle, Washington, United States A human-readable data serialization language designed for representing structured data and exchanging it between systems and programming languages.	3.6%
14	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	3.6%
15	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	1.8%
16	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.	1.5%
17	Trace Context Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.	1.3%
18	OpenSearch Seattle, Washington, United States A specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.	1.2%
19	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%
20	RDF Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A W3C standard model for describing and exchanging graph-based data on the web.	1%
21	Acceptable Ads Berlin, Germany A set of criteria defined by the independent Acceptable Ads Committee that allows publishers to reach ad-blocking users with respectful, non-intrusive and relevant ads.	0.7%
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.	0.6%
23	Humans.txt Spain A plain text file that allows website creators to identify and credit the people involved in developing a website.	0.6%
24	OpenAPI San Francisco, California, United States A specification language for defining HTTP APIs, typically written in YAML or JSON.	0.6%
25	Less A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Standards in other countries

🗃️ 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 100,120 websites from the Netherlands.
We currently track the presence of 54 standards across the web.
Of these, 51 were detected on websites from the Netherlands.
Statistics were last calculated on June 19, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.