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Usage of character encodings broken down by server locations

This diagram shows the percentages of websites using various character encodings broken down by server locations. Cross-technology reports only include technologies with more than 1% usage to ensure statistical significance of the results. See technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys.

How to read the diagram:
UTF-8 is used by 93.3% of all the websites whose character encoding we know.
UTF-8 is used by 95.5% of all the websites whose character encoding we know and that use United States and territories as server location.

UTF-8

93.3%

95.5%

93.0%

86.1%

92.3%

94.0%

85.9%

96.1%

95.0%

84.8%

90.0%

97.8%

92.7%

95.1%

97.6%

96.8%

86.0%

94.2%

76.8%

92.2%

99.4%

ISO-8859-1

3.3%

3.2%

4.9%

0.1%

6.0%

4.7%

0.2%

3.0%

2.6%

0.8%

8.1%

1.8%

6.3%

0.2%

1.5%

2.6%

13.0%

4.6%

0.3%

0.4%

Windows-1251

1.0%

0.2%

0.7%

13.6%

0.2%

0.0%

0.1%

1.3%

0.0%

0.1%

0.0%

0.1%

0.0%

0.3%

0.0%

W3Techs.com, 20 April 2019

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Percentages of websites using various character encodings broken down by server locations

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Technology Brief
Character Encodings
A character encoding system assigns a computer-internal representation (e.g. a number) to every character of an alphabet.

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