📈 Standards Ranked #26–#42 in South Africa

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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.

RankNameMarket share
26
Less

A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.

27
Sitemap

A specialized XML file that lists a website's URLs and helps search engines discover pages available for crawling and indexing.

28
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.

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.

30
Markdown
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

A lightweight markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents using simple, human-readable syntax.

31
OpenAPI
San Francisco, California, United States

A specification language for defining HTTP APIs, typically written in YAML or JSON.

32
Prerender
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A deprecated browser hint that instructed web browsers to preload and render a web page in the background before navigation occurred.

Legacy
33
Humans.txt
Spain

A plain text file that allows website creators to identify and credit the people involved in developing a website.

34
XML
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing structured data in a platform-independent way.

35
WebAssembly
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A portable binary instruction format that runs in modern web browsers with near-native performance, enabling frontend coding in languages that were not traditionally used for web interfaces, such as , C#, and Rust.

36
LLMs.txt

A proposed standard that provides structured content and instructions to guide large language models in understanding and summarizing a website's content.

37
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.

38
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
39
OpenTelemetry
San Francisco, California, United States

An open-source, vendor-neutral observability framework and toolkit for collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs.

40
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.

41
XMP
San Jose, California, United States

An ISO standard for creating, processing, and exchanging metadata for digital documents.

42
ActivityPub

A decentralized social networking protocol used by various Fediverse services such as Mastodon, Pixelfed, and PeerTube.

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