Usage of markup languages for websites broken down by ranking

This diagram shows the percentages of websites using various markup languages broken down by ranking. 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:
XHTML is used by 61.2% of all the websites whose markup language we know.
XHTML is used by 64.4% of all the websites whose markup language we know and that rank in the top 100.000.

XHTML

61.2%

64.4%

66.6%

62.9%

HTML

39.8%

36.8%

34.7%

38.5%

W3Techs.com, 10 September 2010

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Percentages of websites using various markup languages broken down by ranking
Note: a website may use more than one markup language

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Markup Languages
A markup language is a computer language used to describe web pages.

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