Markup Languages BlogCategory Markup LanguagesPosted by Sam Soltano on 4 March 2022HTML5 is now used by over 90% of websites, and by 96.5% of the top 1000 sites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 20 February 2018Due to the popularity of HTML5, 80% of all websites use HTML now. 65.6% used XHTML 6 years ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 23 October 20172 out of 3 websites now use HTML5.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 14 December 201660.2% of all websites and 79.8% of the top 1000 sites are using HTML5.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 30 September 2016XHTML+RDFa (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language + Resource Description Framework in attributes) is almost exclusively used by Drupal sites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 22 September 2016Usage of XHTML peaked at 65.6%. Now it's down at 28.8% due to the rise of HTML5.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 14 December 2015HTML5 is now used by 50.3% of all websites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 25 February 2014HTML is now used on more sites than XHTML, due to the popularity of HTML 5.
Web standard advocates were complaining for years about the relatively low acceptance of XHTML. Now it looks like XHTML usage finally exceeds HTML usage. Probably not for very long. | 
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