⚡ Standards in Zimbabwe

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

Zimbabwe is a Southern African country with a population of over 16 million people.

According to our statistics, standards are used on 93.7% of websites from Zimbabwe.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is HTML with an impressive share of 96%, followed by CSS with 91.7% and JSON with 51.6%.

HTML 96%
CSS 91.7%
JSON 51.6%
RSD 45.5%
Open Graph 44.1%
DNS Prefetch 41.2%
XFN 28.6%
Preconnect 27.3%
SearchAction 27%
Preload 22.7%
Speculation Rules 22.7%
Pingback 15.8%
OpenSearch 2.4%
CGI 2.1%
XHTML 1.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. HTML ^(-1)
3. JSON ^(-1)
4. RSD ^(-1)
7. XFN ^(-3)
13. OpenSearch ^(-6)
14. CGI ^(-9)
16. Sass ^(-6)
17. Trace Context ^(-4)
21. Less ^(-4)
24. Text ^(-3)

✨ Top Web Standards

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 29 standards used on sites from Zimbabwe, 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.	96%
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.	91.7%
3	JSON A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.	51.6%
4	RSD An XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.	45.5%
5	Open Graph Menlo Park, California, United States Enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.	44.1%
6	DNS Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	41.2%
7	XFN An HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.	28.6%
8	Preconnect Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.	27.3%
9	SearchAction Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.	27%
10	Preload Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.	22.7%
11	Speculation Rules Mountain View, California, United States API is used to improve navigation performance by prefetching or even prerendering future navigations.	22.7%
12	Pingback A method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.	15.8%
13	OpenSearch Seattle, Washington, United States A specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.	2.4%
14	CGI Wilmington, Delaware, United States An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.	2.1%
15	XHTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.	1.9%
16	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.	1.6%
17	Trace Context Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.	1.1%
18	Prefetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.	0.8%
19	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%
20	GraphQL Menlo Park, California, United States A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.	0.5%
21	Less A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.	0.5%
22	YAML A data serialization language designed to be human friendly and work well with modern programming languages for common everyday tasks.	0.5%
23	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.	0.5%
24	Text Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States The plain text document format.	0.5%
25	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.	0.3%

Data is based on the analysis of 399 websites from Zimbabwe.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.