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Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2022-03-04T00:00:00Z

HTML5 is now used by over 90% of websites, and by 96.5% of the top 1000 sites.

Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Due to the popularity of HTML5, 80% of all websites use HTML now. 65.6% used XHTML 6 years ago.

Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2017-10-23T00:00:00Z

2 out of 3 websites now use HTML5.

Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2016-12-14T00:00:00Z

60.2% of all websites and 79.8% of the top 1000 sites are using HTML5.

Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2016-09-30T00:00:00Z

XHTML+RDFa (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language + Resource Description Framework in attributes) is almost exclusively used by Drupal sites.

Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2016-09-22T00:00:00Z

Usage of XHTML peaked at 65.6%. Now it's down at 28.8% due to the rise of HTML5.

Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2015-12-14T00:00:00Z

HTML5 is now used by 50.3% of all websites.

Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2014-02-25T00:00:00Z

HTML is now used on more sites than XHTML, due to the popularity of HTML 5.

XHTML usage finally exceeds HTML usage

Matthias Gelbmann — 2009-08-11T00:00:00Z

Web standard advocates were complaining for years about the relatively low acceptance of XHTML. Now it looks like XHTML usage finally exceeds HTML usage. Probably not for very long.