⚡ Standards in Taiwan

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

Taiwan is an East Asian island country with a population of around 23.6 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 95.3% of websites from Taiwan.

Statistics based on 16K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is CSS with an impressive share of 96.4%, followed by HTML with 91.8% and Open Graph with 62.8%.

CSS 96.4%
HTML 91.8%
Open Graph 62.8%
DNS Prefetch 22.6%
Preconnect 19.6%
JSON 19.3%
SearchAction 19.2%
Preload 16.7%
RSD 16.3%
Speculation Rules 15.3%
XFN 15.2%
Pingback 8%
XHTML 7.4%
YAML 4.8%
OAuth 2.8%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. DNS Prefetch ^(-1)
5. Preconnect ^(-4)
8. Preload ^(-2)
15. OAuth ^(-1)
17. Rack ^(-22)
18. Markdown ^(-9)
19. OpenID ^(-5)
20. LLMs.txt ^(-14)
22. Sitemap ^(-6)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 47 standards used on sites from Taiwan, 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.	96.4%
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.	91.8%
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.	62.8%
4	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.	22.6%
5	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.	19.6%
6	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	19.3%
7	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	19.2%
8	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.	16.7%
9	RSD Wesley Hills, New York, United States An XML format that allows client software to discover services provided by web publishing systems.	16.3%
10	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.	15.3%
11	XFN United States An HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.	15.2%
12	Pingback An XML-RPC-based protocol that allows websites to notify each other when one links to another.	8%
13	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	7.4%
14	YAML Seattle, Washington, United States A human-readable data serialization language designed for representing structured data and exchanging it between systems and programming languages.	4.8%
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.	2.8%
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.	2%
17	Rack Munich, Germany A minimal, modular interface and invocation convention that operates between Ruby web servers and web applications to standardize how HTTP requests and responses are exchanged. FreeOpen source	1.3%
18	Markdown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States A lightweight markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents using simple, human-readable syntax.	1.2%
19	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.	1.2%
20	LLMs.txt A proposed standard that provides structured content and instructions to guide large language models in understanding and summarizing a website's content.	1.1%
21	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%
22	Sitemap A specialized XML file that lists a website's URLs and helps search engines discover pages available for crawling and indexing.	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	RDF Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A W3C standard model for describing and exchanging graph-based data on the web.	0.5%
25	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	0.4%

👉 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 16,296 websites from Taiwan.
We currently track the presence of 54 standards across the web.
Of these, 47 were detected on websites from Taiwan.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.