JSON

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.

It represents data as key-value pairs and ordered arrays, supports various data types, and is widely used in web APIs, configuration files, and data storage.

According to our data, JSON is present on 33% of all websites.

🏠 Website
- json.org #518,939
🔗 Links
- Wikipedia
- Awesome JSON
👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Community
- Stack Overflow

📊 Rankings and Market Share

Standards
- Rank: 4
- Market share: 36.7%

🏆 JSON Awards

🥉 Third most popular in Kenya in the Standards category.
🥉 Third most popular in Uganda in the Standards category.
🥉 Third most popular in Ghana in the Standards category.
🥉 Third most popular in Zimbabwe in the Standards category.
🥉 Third most popular in Senegal in the Standards category.
🥉 Third most popular in Jamaica in the Standards category.
🥉 Third most popular in Trinidad and Tobago in the Standards category.
🥉 Third most popular in Ethiopia in the Standards category.
🥉 Third most popular in Mozambique in the Standards category.
🥉 Third most popular in Zambia in the Standards category.

⚡ Sites Using JSON

We have data on 1,098,569 websites that use JSON. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.

The highest rated site using JSON is facebook.com.

#	Website	Rank	Country	Language
1	facebook.com	#2	United States	English
2	instagram.com	#5	United States	English
3	office.com	#7	United States	American English
4	apple.com	#8	United States	American English
5	github.com	#13	United States	English
6	pinterest.com	#15		English
7	yahoo.com	#16	United States	American English
8	tiktok.com	#18	Cayman Islands	English
9	spotify.com	#22	Sweden	English
10	xhamster.com	#24		English
11	medium.com	#41		American English
12	paypal.com	#45	United States	American English
13	patreon.com	#47	United States	English
14	wyze.com	#49		English
15	nytimes.com	#50	United States	English
16	instructure.com	#52	United States	English
17	bbc.co.uk	#53	United Kingdom	British English
18	blog.google	#54		American English
19	theguardian.com	#55		English
20	theverge.com	#56		American English

📈 Usage Statistics

Most of the sites that use JSON:

are located in the United States
have content in English
use the .com domain extension
fall into the Business category.

🌎 Countries📢 Languages⭐ TLDs🗃️ Domain Categories

Most of the sites using JSON are from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

Most JSON users speak English, German, or Spanish.

JSON is especially popular on .com and .org top-level domains.

The primary market segments for websites utilizing JSON include business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping.

🕵️ Similar Technologies

These are some of the best JSON alternatives.

Rank	Name
1	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.
2	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.
14	YAML Seattle, Washington, United States A data serialization language designed to be human friendly and work well with modern programming languages for common everyday tasks.
28	XML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing structured data in a platform-independent way.
38	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/C++, C#, and Rust.