W3Techs
advertise here
provided by
Q-Success
Home Technologies Reports API Sites Quality Users Blog Forum FAQ Search

Featured products and servicesadvertise here

Technologies

Content Management
Server-side Languages
Client-side Languages
JavaScript Libraries
CSS Frameworks
Web Servers
Web Panels
Operating Systems
Web Hosting
Data Centers
Reverse Proxies
DNS Servers
Email Servers
SSL Certificate Authorities
Content Delivery
Traffic Analysis Tools
Advertising Networks
Tag Managers
Social Widgets
Site Elements
Structured Data
Markup Languages
Character Encodings
Image File Formats
Top Level Domains
Server Locations
Content Languages

Related Reports

Segmentation

Technologies > Content Languages > English > by Character Encodings

Usage of English as content language broken down by character encodings

This diagram shows the percentages of websites using English broken down by character encodings. See technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys.

How to read the diagram:
English is used by 49.2% of all the websites whose content language we know.
English is used by 49.4% of all the websites whose content language we know and that use UTF-8 as character encoding.

Overall
49.2%
UTF-8
49.4%
ISO-8859-1
39.7%
Windows-1252
38.6%
Windows-1251
10.9%
EUC-JP
1.9%
EUC-KR
6.9%
Shift JIS
3.5%
GB2312
18.0%
Windows-1250
9.3%
ISO-8859-2
11.9%
Big5
15.6%
ISO-8859-15
11.2%
ISO-8859-9
11.6%
US-ASCII
86.0%
GBK
23.5%
Windows-1254
12.2%
Windows-874
42.7%
Windows-1256
23.3%
Windows-1255
18.1%
TIS-620
60.8%
ISO-8859-7
39.4%
Windows-1253
31.8%
UTF-16
92.2%
GB18030
57.1%
Windows-1257
19.0%
KOI8-R
17.9%
ISO-8859-4
42.8%
KS C 5601
13.0%
ISO-2022-JP
7.1%
UTF-7
91.0%
ISO-8859-8
67.3%
ISO-8859-5
56.7%
ISO-8859-6
53.8%
Windows-31J
40.0%
KOI8-U
26.3%
Windows-1258
75.0%
ISO-8859-16
14.3%
W3Techs.com, 25 October 2025
Percentages of websites using English broken down by character encodings

Share this page



advertise here

About Us Disclaimer Terms of Use Privacy Policy Advertising Contact
W3Techs on   LinkedIn LinkedIn Mastodon Mastodon Bluesky Bluesky
Copyright © 2009-2025 Q-Success