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Usage of UTF-8 as character encoding broken down by server locations

This diagram shows the percentages of websites using UTF-8 broken down by server locations. See technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys.

How to read the diagram:
UTF-8 is used by 98.9% of all the websites whose character encoding we know.
UTF-8 is used by 99.1% of all the websites whose character encoding we know and that use United States as server location.

Overall

98.9%

99.1%

98.8%

99.0%

98.5%

99.0%

96.6%

98.5%

97.8%

97.9%

99.5%

99.1%

99.4%

98.7%

98.1%

97.3%

97.8%

96.5%

99.0%

96.1%

99.4%

100.0%

98.5%

100.0%

98.5%

96.7%

98.9%

99.6%

98.4%

99.2%

97.6%

99.3%

97.7%

98.2%

99.7%

97.8%

97.2%

98.4%

98.1%

97.6%

98.1%

98.2%

99.0%

98.8%

99.2%

98.6%

99.3%

99.5%

98.6%

99.0%

98.9%

99.3%

99.7%

99.1%

99.7%

98.7%

99.0%

99.4%

99.4%

99.2%

99.0%

99.8%

98.4%

99.5%

Bosnia and Herzegovina

99.8%

98.8%

99.7%

99.5%

98.1%

98.3%

98.8%

100.0%

99.4%

99.7%

99.2%

99.3%

99.3%

99.8%

98.2%

99.6%

99.5%

99.9%

99.1%

99.3%

99.6%

98.7%

98.7%

99.8%

98.2%

99.1%

100.0%

99.2%

99.8%

99.8%

100.0%

99.8%

99.8%

99.8%

99.1%

99.1%

99.3%

99.3%

97.9%

99.7%

99.7%

99.4%

100.0%

99.3%

98.6%

98.2%

99.6%

99.6%

100.0%

98.0%

97.1%

100.0%

100.0%

99.5%

97.2%

99.5%

99.5%

99.5%

99.4%

98.9%

100.0%

97.6%

100.0%

97.5%

99.4%

98.1%

98.7%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

97.7%

99.2%

96.2%

97.5%

98.3%

99.1%

96.7%

Holy See (Vatican City State)

100.0%

98.8%

100.0%

100.0%

97.4%

96.0%

98.7%

100.0%

98.5%

100.0%

97.0%

98.5%

100.0%

96.7%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

97.7%

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

100.0%

Gabon

100.0%

Somalia

100.0%

Democratic Republic of the Congo

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

93.8%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

W3Techs.com, 9 March 2026

Percentages of websites using UTF-8 broken down by server locations

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Technology Brief
UTF-8
Category: Character Encodings
UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.
Website: datatracker.ietf.org/...

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