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Technologies > Image File Formats > GIF > by Character Encodings

Usage of GIF 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 16.8% of all the websites.
GIF is used by 16.2% of all the websites that use UTF-8 as character encoding.

Overall
16.8%
UTF-8
16.2%
ISO-8859-1
59.6%
Windows-1252
65.5%
Windows-1251
60.5%
EUC-JP
71.5%
EUC-KR
77.1%
Shift JIS
77.1%
GB2312
58.0%
Windows-1250
58.1%
ISO-8859-2
55.8%
Big5
73.2%
ISO-8859-15
47.4%
ISO-8859-9
39.3%
US-ASCII
46.0%
GBK
55.6%
Windows-1254
47.8%
Windows-874
70.9%
Windows-1256
71.8%
Windows-1255
50.3%
TIS-620
80.9%
ISO-8859-7
66.2%
Windows-1253
70.3%
UTF-16
55.0%
GB18030
26.2%
Windows-1257
65.5%
KOI8-R
74.0%
ISO-8859-4
8.7%
KS C 5601
77.3%
ISO-2022-JP
72.8%
UTF-7
5.9%
ISO-8859-8
49.4%
ISO-8859-5
58.9%
ISO-8859-6
7.0%
Windows-31J
28.9%
KOI8-U
80.0%
Windows-1258
30.0%
ANSI_X3.110-1983
31.6%
ISO-8859-16
84.2%
ISO-8859-13
61.5%
Big5 HKSCS
50.0%
W3Techs.com, 23 August 2025
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.
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