⚡ Standards in Zambia

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

Zambia is an East African country with a population of over 20 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 96.3% of websites from Zambia.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is HTML with an impressive share of 98.1%, followed by CSS with 96.2% and JSON with 52.6%.

HTML 98.1%
CSS 96.2%
JSON 52.6%
RSD 49.3%
DNS Prefetch 45.5%
Open Graph 44.5%
XFN 34.6%
Preconnect 27.5%
SearchAction 22.3%
Speculation Rules 19.4%
Preload 19%
Pingback 19%
OAuth 1.9%
IAB TCF 1.9%
OpenID 1.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. HTML ^(-1)
3. JSON ^(-1)
4. RSD ^(-1)
5. DNS Prefetch ^(-1)
7. XFN ^(-3)
10. Speculation Rules ^(-1)
13. OAuth ^(-3)
14. IAB TCF ^(-4)
15. OpenID ^(-9)
17. CGI ^(-6)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 27 standards used on sites from Zambia, 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.	98.1%
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.	96.2%
3	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	52.6%
4	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	49.3%
5	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	45.5%
6	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.	44.5%
7	XFN An HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.	34.6%
8	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	27.5%
9	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	22.3%
10	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	19.4%
11	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	19%
12	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	19%
13	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.	1.9%
14	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.	1.9%
15	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.	1.9%
16	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	1.4%
17	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	1.4%
18	OpenSearch Seattle, Washington, United States A specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.	1.4%
19	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	1.4%
20	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	0.9%
21	Trace Context Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.	0.5%
22	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	0.5%
23	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	0.5%
24	Humans.txt A text file that can be created by developers to list the people who have contributed to a website.	0.5%
25	Markdown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States A lightweight markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents using simple, human-readable syntax.	0.5%

Data is based on the analysis of 219 websites from Zambia.
Statistics were last calculated on March 30, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.