W3Techs.com - Character Encodings Blog

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Sam Soltano — 2017-10-11T00:00:00Z

9 out of 10 websites use UTF-8 as character encoding. 45 other encodings share the remaining 10%.

Sam Soltano — 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

7 out of 8 websites (87.5%) use UTF-8 as character encoding.

Sam Soltano — 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z

6 out of 7 websites (85.7%) use UTF-8 as character encoding.

Sam Soltano — 2014-04-10T00:00:00Z

4 out of 5 websites use UTF-8 as character encoding.

Sam Soltano — 2013-03-15T00:00:00Z

South Korea is the only country in the world where UTF-8 is not the most used character encoding. It's EUC-KR instead.

Sam Soltano — 2013-01-25T00:00:00Z

More than 75% of all websites now use UTF-8 as character encoding.

Sam Soltano — 2012-03-14T00:00:00Z

UTF-8 is now also the dominant character encoding used on Russian websites, overtaking Windows-1251.

Sam Soltano — 2012-02-22T00:00:00Z

UTF-8 is the most popular character encoding on websites, but not on Arabic sites, where it's Windows-1256.

Sam Soltano — 2011-11-10T00:00:00Z

2 out of 3 websites use UTF-8 as character encoding.

Sam Soltano — 2009-09-24T00:00:00Z

We report now the character encodings of websites.