⚡ 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 96.2% of websites from Zambia.

Statistics based on 237 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 98.2%, followed by CSS with 96.1% and JSON with 54.4%.

HTML 98.2%
CSS 96.1%
JSON 54.4%
RSD 50%
DNS Prefetch 46.1%
Open Graph 44.3%
XFN 35.1%
Preconnect 28.1%
SearchAction 21.9%
Speculation Rules 21.9%
Pingback 18.9%
Preload 18.4%
IAB TCF 1.8%
OAuth 1.8%
Sass 1.8%

🚀 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)
11. Pingback ^(-1)
13. IAB TCF ^(-5)
14. OAuth ^(-2)
15. Sass ^(-7)

✨ 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.	98.2%
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.	96.1%
3	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	54.4%
4	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	50%
5	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements instructs web browsers to resolve domain names for external resources before those resources are requested.	46.1%
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.	44.3%
7	XFN United States An HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding relationship metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.	35.1%
8	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements instructs browsers to establish early connections to external origins before resources are requested.	28.1%
9	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	21.9%
10	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	21.9%
11	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	18.9%
12	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements instructs web browsers to fetch important resources early before they are requested during page rendering.	18.4%
13	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.	1.8%
14	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.	1.8%
15	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	1.8%
16	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.	1.8%
17	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	1.3%
18	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	1.3%
19	OpenSearch Seattle, Washington, United States A specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.	1.3%
20	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements tells the browser to download resources that are likely to be needed for future navigation when the current page is idle.	0.9%
21	RDF Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A W3C standard model for describing and exchanging graph-based data on the web.	0.4%
22	Markdown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States A lightweight markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents using simple, human-readable syntax.	0.4%
23	Trace Context Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.	0.4%
24	Humans.txt A text file that can be created by developers to list the people who have contributed to a website.	0.4%
25	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	0.4%

🗃️ 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 237 websites from Zambia.
We currently track the presence of 54 standards across the web.
Of these, 27 were detected on websites from Zambia.
Statistics were last calculated on May 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.