XHTML
W3C, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesExtensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is an XML-based markup language that extends 
HTML 4.
According to our data, XHTML is detected on 4.3% of all websites.
- 🏠 Website
- 🔗 Links
Wikipedia📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Standards
- Rank: 13
- Market share: 4.8%
🏆 XHTML Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in China in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Brunei Darussalam in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Hong Kong in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Macao in the Standards category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Russia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Taiwan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Samoa in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
⚡ Sites Using XHTML
We have data on 152,580 websites that use XHTML. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using XHTML is dailymail.co.uk.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #147 | United Kingdom | English | |
| 2 | #341 | United States | English | |
| 3 | #400 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 4 | #438 | United States | English | |
| 5 | #460 | English | ||
| 6 | #462 | Korea | Korean | |
| 7 | #496 | Turkey | Turkish | |
| 8 | #504 | United States | English | |
| 9 | #574 | Ireland | English | |
| 10 | #656 | France | English | |
| 11 | #1,089 | United States | English | |
| 12 | #1,129 | India | English | |
| 13 | #1,224 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 14 | #1,251 | Korea | English | |
| 15 | #1,439 | Spain | Spanish | |
| 16 | #1,551 | English | ||
| 17 | #1,687 | Germany | German | |
| 18 | #1,952 | United States | Chinese | |
| 19 | #1,990 | Colombia | ||
| 20 | #1,996 | Netherlands | English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use XHTML:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using XHTML are from the United States, Japan, and China.
- United States 18%
- Japan 9.5%
- China 7.8%
- Germany 7.3%
- Russia 4.6%
- United Kingdom 4.2%
- France 3.5%
- Korea 2.9%
- Italy 2.8%
- Other 39.4%
Most XHTML users speak English, Chinese, or Japanese.
- English 44.2%
- Chinese 9%
- Japanese 8.9%
- German 5.3%
- Russian 5%
- Spanish 3.3%
- French 3.3%
- Korean 2.5%
- Polish 2.2%
- Other 16.3%
XHTML is especially popular on .com, .org, and .net top-level domains.
- .com 43.3%
- .org 6.2%
- .net 5.1%
- .de 4.4%
- .ru 3.4%
- .jp 2.5%
- .co.uk 1.6%
- .it 1.6%
- .nl 1.2%
- Other 30.7%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing XHTML include business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference.
- Business 13.5%
- Marketing/Merchandising 9.3%
- Education/Reference 7.4%
- Online Shopping 6.2%
- Blogs/Wiki 6.1%
- Entertainment 5.5%
- Internet Services 5.2%
- Software/Hardware 3.3%
- Forum/Bulletin Boards 2.9%
- Other 40.6%
🔢 XHTML Versions
The most popular version of XHTML is 1.0, used by 97.1% of sites where versions were detected. In addition, 2.9% of sites use XHTML 1.1, and 0.01% use XHTML 4.01.
- 1.0 97.1%
- 1.1 2.9%
- 4.01 0.01%
- 4.0 0.01%
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SearchAction💬 Frequently Asked Questions
What is the company behind XHTML?
XHTML is owned by World Wide Web Consortium, Inc., headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Which country uses XHTML the most?
The majority of XHTML users are from the United States.
Who uses XHTML?
According to our data, XHTML is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as dailymail.co.uk,
fc2.com, and
hotpepper.jp.
Is XHTML used on government websites?
Yes, for example, it is used by weather.gov. Overall, we found XHTML on 74 government sites in the United States.
Do academic institutions use XHTML?
Yes. The most notable of these is sena.edu.co. Overall, we know of 80 academic websites in the United States that use XHTML.
How does XHTML compare to the competition?
XHTML is a moderately popular standard, ranking ahead of 41 other standards we track.
👉 See Also
- ✨ Related technologies
CSS, HTML, 
JavaScript, XML, XSLT
- 💼 All technologies from W3C
🗃️ 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 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.