⚡ Standards in Norway

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

Norway is a Northern European country with a population of over 5.5 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 88.1% of websites from Norway.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is HTML with an impressive share of 96.6%, followed by CSS with 96.5% and Open Graph with 65.5%.

HTML 96.6%
CSS 96.5%
Open Graph 65.5%
JSON 38.7%
RSD 31.8%
DNS Prefetch 30.3%
SearchAction 28.3%
Preconnect 26.2%
Preload 24.4%
XFN 21%
Pingback 14%
Speculation Rules 13.9%
GraphQL 7.6%
XHTML 2.5%
YAML 1.8%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. HTML ^(-1)
11. Pingback ^(-1)
13. GraphQL ^(-7)
16. Prefetch ^(-1)
18. Humans.txt ^(-12)
19. Trace Context ^(-2)
20. JSON Web Token ^(-16)
23. Less ^(-2)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 46 standards used on sites from Norway, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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.	96.6%
2	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%
3	Open Graph Menlo Park, California, United States Enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.	65.5%
4	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	38.7%
5	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	31.8%
6	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	30.3%
7	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	28.3%
8	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	26.2%
9	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	24.4%
10	XFN An HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.	21%
11	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	14%
12	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	13.9%
13	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	7.6%
14	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	2.5%
15	YAML A data serialization language designed to be human friendly and work well with modern programming languages for common everyday tasks.	1.8%
16	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	1.7%
17	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.	1.6%
18	Humans.txt A text file that can be created by developers to list the people who have contributed to a website.	1.4%
19	Trace Context Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.	1.2%
20	JSON Web Token Fremont, California, United States An open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a compact and self-contained way for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object.	1.1%
21	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.	1.1%
22	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%
23	Less A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.	0.7%
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.	0.7%
25	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Standards in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 15,302 websites from Norway.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.