⚡ Standards in the Philippines

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

The Philippines is a Southeast Asian country with a population of over 118 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are detected on 94% of websites from the Philippines.

Statistics based on 6K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is HTML with an impressive share of 96.5%, followed by CSS with 93.2% and ARIA with 69.5%.

HTML 96.5%
CSS 93.2%
ARIA 69.5%
Open Graph 56%
JSON 43.2%
DNS Prefetch 34.9%
RSD 34.4%
Speculation Rules 31%
oEmbed 30.4%
SearchAction 28.8%
Preconnect 25.8%
Preload 23.9%
XFN 22.8%
Pingback 12.9%
YAML 6.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. HTML ^(-1)
8. Speculation Rules ^(-2)
15. YAML ^(-1)
16. Prefetch ^(-1)
18. IAB TCF ^(-3)
19. Sass ^(-6)
22. OpenID ^(-4)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 44 standards used on sites from the Philippines, 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.	96.5%
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.	93.2%
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.	69.5%
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.	56%
5	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	43.2%
6	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.	34.9%
7	RSD Wesley Hills, New York, United States An XML format that allows client software to discover services provided by web publishing systems.	34.4%
8	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.	31%
9	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.	30.4%
10	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	28.8%
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.	23.9%
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.	12.9%
15	YAML Seattle, Washington, United States A human-readable data serialization language designed for representing structured data and exchanging it between systems and programming languages.	6.3%
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.	3.4%
17	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	2.9%
18	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.	1.8%
19	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	1.5%
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.	1.5%
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.	1.2%
22	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.	0.9%
23	OpenSearch Seattle, Washington, United States A specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.	0.8%
24	RDF Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A W3C standard model for describing and exchanging graph-based data on the web.	0.7%
25	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	0.7%

👉 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 6,438 websites from the Philippines.
We currently track the presence of 56 standards across the web.
Of these, 44 were detected on websites from the Philippines.
Statistics were last calculated on November 2, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.