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Technologies > Image File Formats > GIF > by Character Encodings

Usage of GIF as image file format broken down by character encodings

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

How to read the diagram:
GIF is used by 14.2% of all the websites.
GIF is used by 13.8% of all the websites that use UTF-8 as character encoding.

Overall
14.2%
UTF-8
13.8%
ISO-8859-1
59.0%
Windows-1252
64.7%
Windows-1251
60.9%
EUC-JP
70.3%
Shift JIS
78.1%
EUC-KR
76.5%
Windows-1250
58.6%
GB2312
57.6%
ISO-8859-2
56.3%
Big5
72.9%
ISO-8859-15
46.6%
US-ASCII
45.6%
ISO-8859-9
37.7%
GBK
53.9%
Windows-1254
46.3%
Windows-874
70.5%
Windows-1256
71.9%
Windows-1255
50.5%
TIS-620
80.6%
UTF-16
57.6%
ISO-8859-7
63.7%
Windows-1253
71.2%
GB18030
28.9%
Windows-1257
67.2%
KOI8-R
73.9%
ISO-8859-4
8.4%
KS C 5601
78.7%
ISO-2022-JP
73.2%
UTF-7
5.4%
ISO-8859-8
52.5%
ISO-8859-5
61.7%
Windows-31J
30.4%
ISO-8859-6
7.7%
KOI8-U
75.9%
Windows-1258
22.7%
ANSI_X3.110-1983
26.3%
ISO-8859-16
82.4%
ISO-8859-13
66.7%
ISO-8859-3
58.3%
W3Techs.com, 5 July 2026
Percentages of websites using GIF broken down by character encodings

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Technology Brief
GIF
Category: Image File Formats
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossless compression image format, originally introduced by CompuServe and suitable to store graphics, logos and simple animations.
Website: w3.org/...


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