⚡ Standards in Samoa

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

Samoa is a Polynesian country with a population of over 225 thousand people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 86% of websites from Samoa.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is HTML with an impressive share of 91.3%, followed by CSS with 74.7% and Open Graph with 28.7%.

HTML 91.3%
CSS 74.7%
Open Graph 28.7%
RSD 19.3%
DNS Prefetch 18.7%
JSON 14.5%
XFN 13.6%
Preconnect 13.1%
SearchAction 12.9%
Pingback 9.8%
Preload 9%
Acceptable Ads 7.5%
Speculation Rules 7.2%
XHTML 7%
CGI 1.7%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. HTML ^(-1)
4. RSD ^(-1)
5. DNS Prefetch ^(-1)
7. XFN ^(-3)
10. Pingback ^(-2)
12. Acceptable Ads ^(-3)
15. CGI ^(-8)
16. OpenSearch ^(-3)
17. Text ^(-10)
20. IDN ^(-15)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 34 standards used on sites from Samoa, 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.	91.3%
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.	74.7%
3	Open Graph Menlo Park, California, United States Enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.	28.7%
4	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	19.3%
5	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	18.7%
6	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	14.5%
7	XFN An HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.	13.6%
8	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	13.1%
9	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	12.9%
10	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	9.8%
11	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	9%
12	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.	7.5%
13	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	7.2%
14	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	7%
15	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	1.7%
16	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%
17	Text Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The plain text document format.	1.2%
18	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%
19	YAML A data serialization language designed to be human friendly and work well with modern programming languages for common everyday tasks.	0.6%
20	IDN Internationalized Domain Names allow people around the world to use domain names in local languages, such as Arabic, Chinese, or Cyrillic.	0.6%
21	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	0.5%
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.	0.5%
23	Trace Context Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.	0.5%
24	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.	0.5%
25	Sitemap A file in XML format that allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling.	0.3%

Data is based on the analysis of 745 websites from Samoa.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.