Standards Ranked #25–#42 on the Web in South Africa in 2026

📈 Standards Ranked #26–#42 in South Africa

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

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

The following list shows the standards ranked from 26th to 42nd out of 42 used on websites in South Africa.

Rank	Name	Market share
26	Less A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.	0.4%
27	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.	0.4%
28	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%
29	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.	0.2%
30	OpenAPI San Francisco, California, United States A specification language for defining HTTP APIs, typically written in YAML or JSON.	0.1%
31	Prerender The rel="prerender" attribute on HTML elements.	0.1%
32	Markdown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States A markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents.	0.1%
33	XML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data.	0.1%
34	Humans.txt A text file that can be created by developers to list the people who have contributed to a website.	0.09%
35	WebAssembly A portable binary code format that can be run in modern web browsers with near-native performance.	0.08%
36	Rack 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	0.04%
37	LLMs.txt A proposed standard that provides structured content and instructions to guide large language models in understanding and summarizing a website's content.	0.04%
38	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.	0.03%
39	ESI Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A simple markup language used to define web page components for dynamic assembly and delivery of web applications at the edge of the Internet.	0.01%
40	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.	0.006%
41	ActivityPub A decentralized social networking protocol used by various fediverse services such as Mastodon, Pixelfed, and PeerTube.	0.006%
42	XMP San Jose, California, United States An ISO standard for creating, processing, and exchanging metadata for digital documents.	0.006%

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🌎 Standards in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 17,795 websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.