Technologies > Character Encodings > Historical Trend > Yearly Historical yearly trends in the usage statistics of character encodings for websitesThis report shows the historical trends in the usage of the top character encodings since January 2015. | 2015
1 Jan | 2016
1 Jan | 2017
1 Jan | 2018
1 Jan | 2019
1 Jan | 2020
1 Jan | 2021
1 Jan | 2022
1 Jan | 2023
1 Jan | 2024
1 Jan | 2025
1 Jan | 2026
1 Jan | 2026
4 Jan | | UTF-8 | 82.3% | 86.0% | 88.2% | 90.5% | 92.8% | 94.6% | 96.0% | 97.6% | 97.9% | 98.1% | 98.5% | 98.9% | 98.9% |
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| ISO-8859-1 | 9.3% | 6.9% | 5.5% | 4.3% | 3.6% | 2.6% | 1.6% | 1.1% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.1% | 1.0% | 1.0% |
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| Windows-1252 | 1.1% | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.5% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% |
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| Windows-1251 | 2.2% | 1.9% | 1.7% | 1.5% | 1.1% | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% |
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| EUC-JP | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
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| EUC-KR | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | <0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
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| Shift JIS | 1.3% | 1.1% | 1.0% | 0.8% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.3% | <0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
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| GB2312 | 1.4% | 0.9% | 0.8% | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
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| Windows-1250 | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | 0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
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| ISO-8859-2 | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | 0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
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| Big5 | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
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| ISO-8859-15 | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
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| ISO-8859-9 | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
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| US-ASCII | 0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
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| GBK | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | <0.1% | 0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
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| Windows-1254 | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | <0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
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| Windows-874 | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
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| Windows-1256 | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% | <0.1% |
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The diagram shows only character encodings with more than 1% usage.
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