⚡ Standards in Russia

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

Russia is a Eurasian country with a population of around 144 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 91.7% of websites from Russia.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is CSS with an impressive share of 96.9%, followed by HTML with 91.4% and Open Graph with 45.5%.

CSS 96.9%
HTML 91.4%
Open Graph 45.5%
DNS Prefetch 18.3%
Preload 13.7%
Preconnect 13.6%
RSD 13.5%
SearchAction 12.6%
JSON 12.3%
XFN 10%
XHTML 7.2%
Pingback 6.6%
Speculation Rules 6%
OpenSearch 3.1%
OAuth 1.6%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. DNS Prefetch ^(-2)
5. Preload ^(-4)
6. Preconnect ^(-2)
11. XHTML ^(-2)
14. OpenSearch ^(-5)
15. OAuth ^(-1)
16. IDN ^(-19)
17. Less ^(-8)
19. Sass ^(-3)
22. JSON Web Token ^(-14)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 49 standards used on sites from Russia, 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.	96.9%
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.	91.4%
3	Open Graph Menlo Park, California, United States Enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.	45.5%
4	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	18.3%
5	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	13.7%
6	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	13.6%
7	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	13.5%
8	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	12.6%
9	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	12.3%
10	XFN An HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.	10%
11	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	7.2%
12	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	6.6%
13	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	6%
14	OpenSearch Seattle, Washington, United States A specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.	3.1%
15	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%
16	IDN Internationalized Domain Names allow people around the world to use domain names in local languages, such as Arabic, Chinese, or Cyrillic.	1.4%
17	Less A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.	1.3%
18	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	1%
19	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	0.8%
20	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%
21	YAML A data serialization language designed to be human friendly and work well with modern programming languages for common everyday tasks.	0.5%
22	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.	0.4%
23	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.	0.4%
24	RDF Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A W3C standard model to describe and exchange graph data on the web.	0.4%
25	Text Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The plain text document format.	0.3%

👉 See Also

🌎 Standards in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 90,449 websites from Russia.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.