⚡ Standards in Qatar

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

Qatar is a Western Asian country with a population of over 3 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 93.2% of websites from Qatar.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is CSS with an impressive share of 97.7%, followed by HTML with 96.5% and Open Graph with 57.3%.

CSS 97.7%
HTML 96.5%
Open Graph 57.3%
JSON 41%
DNS Prefetch 36.7%
RSD 33.7%
Preconnect 28.7%
Preload 26.8%
SearchAction 26.7%
XFN 21.3%
Speculation Rules 19.4%
Pingback 11.7%
YAML 4.2%
XHTML 3.4%
Trace Context 2.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

5. DNS Prefetch ^(-1)
7. Preconnect ^(-1)
8. Preload ^(-1)
13. YAML ^(-1)
15. Trace Context ^(-6)
16. GraphQL ^(-4)
17. OpenAPI ^(-15)
18. Sass ^(-4)
20. Less ^(-5)
22. OpenID ^(-2)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 31 standards used on sites from Qatar, 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.	97.7%
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.	96.5%
3	Open Graph Menlo Park, California, United States Enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.	57.3%
4	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	41%
5	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	36.7%
6	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	33.7%
7	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	28.7%
8	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	26.8%
9	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	26.7%
10	XFN An HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.	21.3%
11	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	19.4%
12	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	11.7%
13	YAML A data serialization language designed to be human friendly and work well with modern programming languages for common everyday tasks.	4.2%
14	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	3.4%
15	Trace Context Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.	2.9%
16	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	1.8%
17	OpenAPI San Francisco, California, United States A specification language for defining HTTP APIs, typically written in YAML or JSON.	1.4%
18	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	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	Less A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.	0.9%
21	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	0.9%
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	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.	0.8%
24	Sitemap A file in XML format that allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling.	0.5%
25	Humans.txt A text file that can be created by developers to list the people who have contributed to a website.	0.3%

👉 See Also

🌎 Standards in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 696 websites from Qatar.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.