Less
Less ("Leaner Style Sheets") is a backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.
According to our data, Less is detected on 0.5% of all websites.
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- Standards
- Rank: 25
- Market share: 0.6%
🏆 Less Awards
- 🔥 14th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Slovakia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Iceland in the Standards category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in Belarus in the Standards category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Russia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Kazakhstan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Uzbekistan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in China in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Ukraine in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Luxembourg in the Standards category.
⚡ Sites Using Less
We have data on 17,231 websites that use Less. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Less is netflix.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #19 | United States | English | |
| 2 | #56 | American English | ||
| 3 |  stackoverflow.com |
#101 | English | |
| 4 | #160 | Korean | ||
| 5 |  figma.com |
#198 | English | |
| 6 | #317 | Korea | English | |
| 7 | #367 | United States | English | |
| 8 | #489 | China | English | |
| 9 | #522 | United States | English | |
| 10 | #542 | France | French | |
| 11 | #1,002 | English | ||
| 12 | #1,143 | Brazil | Brazilian Portuguese | |
| 13 | #1,211 | United States | English | |
| 14 | #1,223 | United Kingdom | English | |
| 15 |  podcasts.apple.com |
United States | American English | |
| 16 | #1,299 | United Kingdom | English | |
| 17 | #1,305 | United States | American English | |
| 18 | #1,422 | Ireland | English | |
| 19 | #1,645 | United States | English | |
| 20 | #1,652 | United Kingdom | American English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Less:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Sports category.
Most of the sites using Less are from the United States, Germany, and Russia.
- United States 20.4%
- Germany 7.6%
- Russia 7.2%
- Czech Republic 6.6%
- United Kingdom 5.9%
- France 4.2%
- Netherlands 3.3%
- Spain 3.3%
- Italy 2.9%
- Other 38.6%
Most Less users speak English, Russian, or German.
- English 49.3%
- Russian 7.6%
- German 6.9%
- Czech 5.5%
- Spanish 4.4%
- French 3.9%
- Dutch 2.4%
- Italian 2.2%
- Portuguese 2%
- Other 15.8%
Less is especially popular on .com, .cz, and .org top-level domains.
- .com 41.5%
- .cz 5.1%
- .org 5%
- .ru 4.9%
- .de 4.7%
- .net 3.1%
- .co.uk 2.4%
- .nl 1.9%
- .it 1.7%
- Other 29.7%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Less include sports, business, and forum, bulletin boards.
- Sports 15.5%
- Business 11.4%
- Forum/Bulletin Boards 9%
- Online Shopping 8.9%
- Marketing/Merchandising 8.5%
- Education/Reference 4.6%
- Travel 4.4%
- Blogs/Wiki 3.2%
- Internet Services 3%
- Other 31.5%
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Which country uses Less the most?
The majority of Less users are from the United States.
Who uses Less?
According to our data, Less is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as netflix.com,
theverge.com, and
stackoverflow.com.
Is Less used on government websites?
Overall, we found Less on 9 government sites in the United States.
Do academic institutions use Less?
Yes. The most prominent of these is ox.ac.uk. In total, we know of 26 academic websites in the United States that use Less.
How does Less compare to its competitors?
Less is a moderately popular standard, ranking ahead of 29 other standards we track.