XML
W3C, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesExtensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing structured data in a platform-independent way.
It uses a hierarchical tree structure with custom-defined tags, supports schemas such as DTD and XML Schema for validation, enables namespaces to avoid naming conflicts, and is widely used in formats and protocols such as 
RSS, SOAP, and configuration files.
According to our data, XML is detected on 0.3% of all websites.
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Wikipedia📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Standards
- Rank: 29
- Market share: 0.4%
🏆 XML Awards
- 🔥 15th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Switzerland in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Austria in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in Ukraine in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Spain in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Poland in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Slovakia in the Standards category.
⚡ Sites Using XML
We have data on 11,269 websites that use XML. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using XML is bakusai.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #940 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 2 | English | |||
| 3 |  m.facebook.com |
United States | English | |
| 4 | #1,288 | Mexico | ||
| 5 | #1,453 | Spain | Spanish | |
| 6 | #1,526 | China | ||
| 7 | #2,073 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 8 | #2,597 | Japan | English | |
| 9 | #2,608 | Russia | ||
| 10 | #2,721 | Portugal | Portuguese | |
| 11 | #3,205 | Azerbaijan | American English | |
| 12 | #3,240 | |||
| 13 | #3,766 | Russia | ||
| 14 | #4,015 | Azerbaijan | ||
| 15 | #4,631 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 16 | #6,064 | Japan | ||
| 17 | #6,168 | Italy | Italian | |
| 18 | #6,532 | Spain | Spanish | |
| 19 | #6,554 | Japan | ||
| 20 | #6,771 | Switzerland | English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use XML:
- are located in Japan
- have content in Japanese
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using XML are from Japan, Germany, and the United States.
- Japan 32%
- Germany 15.1%
- United States 11.6%
- Czech Republic 3.7%
- Italy 3%
- Spain 3%
- Switzerland 3%
- United Kingdom 2.8%
- Russia 2.5%
- Other 23.3%
Most XML users speak Japanese, English, or German.
- Japanese 35.7%
- English 26.5%
- German 17%
- Spanish 3.2%
- Czech 3%
- Russian 2.6%
- Italian 2%
- French 1.9%
- Korean 1.3%
- Other 6.8%
XML is especially popular on .com, .de, and .jp top-level domains.
- .com 32.3%
- .de 11%
- .jp 8.5%
- .org 6.5%
- .net 6.4%
- .co.jp 3.2%
- .cz 2.8%
- .ch 2.4%
- .ru 1.9%
- Other 25%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing XML include business, education and reference, and online shopping.
- Business 12.8%
- Education/Reference 9.5%
- Online Shopping 7.4%
- Marketing/Merchandising 6.4%
- Internet Services 5.1%
- Entertainment 4.7%
- Software/Hardware 4.2%
- Public Information 4%
- Blogs/Wiki 3.9%
- Other 42%
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What is the company behind XML?
XML is owned by World Wide Web Consortium, Inc., headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Which country uses XML the most?
The majority of XML users are from Japan.
Who uses XML?
According to our data, XML is used on thousands of sites, including bakusai.com,
eur-lex.europa.eu, and
m.facebook.com.
Is XML used on government websites?
Overall, we found XML on 3 government sites in the United States.
Do academic institutions use XML?
Yes. In total, we know of 10 academic websites in the United States that use XML.
How does XML compare to its competitors?
XML is a moderately popular standard, ranking ahead of 25 other standards we track.
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🗃️ 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 3,511,995 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.