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Usage of character encodings broken down by top level domains

This diagram shows the percentages of websites using various character encodings broken down by top level domains. Cross-technology reports only include technologies with more than 1% usage to ensure statistical significance of the results. See technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys.

How to read the diagram:
UTF-8 is used by 75.8% of all the websites whose character encoding we know.
UTF-8 is used by 77.6% of all the websites whose character encoding we know and that use .com as top level domain.

UTF-8

75.8%

77.6%

71.4%

61.5%

79.3%

67.8%

59.8%

78.7%

55.6%

69.4%

78.1%

83.0%

67.3%

81.4%

77.0%

ISO-8859-1

12.2%

12.9%

12.2%

0.1%

13.2%

26.4%

0.2%

19.2%

0.5%

29.4%

9.8%

0.3%

13.4%

15.1%

20.8%

Windows-1251

3.1%

0.8%

2.9%

37.9%

1.7%

0.1%

0.0%

0.1%

0.0%

4.5%

0.0%

5.3%

0.6%

0.0%

GB2312

2.6%

3.2%

3.6%

0.0%

1.2%

0.0%

36.6%

0.0%

0.9%

0.0%

0.5%

0.2%

0.0%

Shift JIS

1.5%

1.0%

2.7%

0.0%

0.5%

0.0%

32.1%

0.0%

1.7%

0.0%

7.0%

0.3%

0.0%

Windows-1252

1.3%

1.5%

0.0%

1.7%

0.1%

1.7%

0.0%

1.7%

2.0%

0.0%

2.3%

0.8%

W3Techs.com, 25 May 2013

Overall

Percentages of websites using various character encodings broken down by top level domains
Note: a website may use more than one character encoding

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Character Encodings
A character encoding system assigns a computer-internal representation (e.g. a number) to every character of an alphabet.

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