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Encoding Usage Statistics

Web and Internet Technology Usage Statistics

Encoding Overview Document Encoding

Encoding refers to the character encoding used to describe the page. BuiltWith can detect this as it is typically described at the top of the page or from within meta tags. Telling the browser what character encoding is being used allows the browser to render the correct characters on the screen, it also is the reason why visiting a Chinese language website will render in Chinese characters and not a Western character set and vice versa.

The majority of the top internet sites use UTF-8 encoding, a Unicode standard which is required by all internet protocols to be identifiable.

Encoding Distribution Distribution of the top web technologies.
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Distribution is calculated from a cross section of website domains provided by URLs entered at BuiltWith.com and the Quantcast Top Million. Last calculated on February 28 2010

Encoding Usage Proportion of sites found using these technologies.
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Analytics penetration is based on what BuiltWith can find and is typically based on popular 3rd party tools. Last calculated on February 28 2010.

Top Providers Document Encoding
UTF-842.74%
ISO/IEC 885928.72%
GB 23120.11%
UTF-16/UCS-20.03%
Big50.01%
Shift JIS0.01%
GBK0.01%
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Hot Providers Biggest Movers in Encoding
UTF-8+10.41%
ISO/IEC 8859-6.69%
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