⚡ Standards in Oman

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

Oman is a Western Asian country with a population of over 4.7 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 94.4% of websites from Oman.

Statistics based on 557 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is HTML with an impressive share of 96.6%, followed by CSS with 95.6% and Open Graph with 50.4%.

HTML 96.6%
CSS 95.6%
Open Graph 50.4%
JSON 43%
RSD 40.3%
DNS Prefetch 33.5%
SearchAction 30%
Preconnect 27.8%
XFN 25.5%
Preload 23%
Pingback 18.4%
Speculation Rules 18.3%
XHTML 2.9%
OAuth 1.9%
OpenID 1.5%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. HTML ^(-1)
9. XFN ^(-1)
11. Pingback ^(-1)
14. OAuth ^(-2)
15. OpenID ^(-10)
16. Prefetch ^(-1)
17. RDF ^(-5)
19. CGI ^(-5)
20. Trace Context ^(-1)
21. Less ^(-5)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 29 standards used on sites from Oman, 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.	95.6%
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.	50.4%
4	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	43%
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.	40.3%
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.	33.5%
7	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	30%
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.	27.8%
9	XFN United States An HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.	25.5%
10	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%
11	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	18.4%
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.	18.3%
13	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	2.9%
14	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%
15	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%
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.	1.1%
17	RDF Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A W3C standard model for describing and exchanging graph-based data on the web.	1.1%
18	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%
19	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	0.8%
20	Trace Context Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.	0.6%
21	Less A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.	0.6%
22	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	0.6%
23	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	0.4%
24	Text Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The plain text document format.	0.4%
25	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.	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Standards in other countries
- Iraq
- Kuwait
- Qatar

🗃️ 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 557 websites from Oman.
We currently track the presence of 54 standards across the web.
Of these, 29 were detected on websites from Oman.
Statistics were last calculated on June 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.