⚡ Standards in Palau

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

Palau is a Micronesian country with a population of around 18 thousand people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 84.2% of websites from Palau.

Statistics based on 366 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is HTML with an impressive share of 93.2%, followed by CSS with 85.4% and Open Graph with 29.9%.

HTML 93.2%
CSS 85.4%
Open Graph 29.9%
Preconnect 24%
Acceptable Ads 17.5%
DNS Prefetch 16.2%
RSD 14%
Preload 11%
JSON 10.7%
XFN 10.4%
SearchAction 9.1%
Speculation Rules 7.1%
Pingback 6.8%
XHTML 4.5%
OpenSearch 1.6%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. HTML ^(-1)
4. Preconnect ^(-4)
5. Acceptable Ads ^(-10)
8. Preload ^(-1)
15. OpenSearch ^(-4)
17. CGI ^(-6)
18. Text ^(-9)
20. Trace Context ^(-1)
21. RelMeAuth ^(-8)
23. Onion ^(-23)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 29 standards used on sites from Palau, 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.	93.2%
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.	85.4%
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.	29.9%
4	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	24%
5	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.	17.5%
6	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	16.2%
7	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	14%
8	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	11%
9	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	10.7%
10	XFN An HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.	10.4%
11	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	9.1%
12	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	7.1%
13	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	6.8%
14	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	4.5%
15	OpenSearch Seattle, Washington, United States A specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.	1.6%
16	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.	1.3%
17	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	1%
18	Text Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The plain text document format.	1%
19	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	1%
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	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.	0.6%
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	Onion Sites are websites on the dark web that use the .onion top-level domain and are only accessible through online routing through Tor.	0.3%
24	Less A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.	0.3%
25	OpenTelemetry San Francisco, California, United States A vendor- and tool-agnostic observability framework and toolkit for creating and managing telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs.	0.3%

🗃️ 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 366 websites from Palau.
We currently track the presence of 54 standards across the web.
Of these, 29 were detected on websites from Palau.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.