Technologies > Character Encodings > by Ranking
This diagram shows the percentages of websites using various character encodings broken down by ranking. 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.
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UTF-8 is used by 99.0% of all the websites whose character encoding we know.
UTF-8 is used by 99.3% of all the websites whose character encoding we know and that rank in the top 1,000,000.
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| W3Techs.com, 17 August 2026 | |||
Overall top 1,000,000 top 100,000 top 10,000 top 1,000 | |||
| Percentages of websites using various character encodings broken down by ranking | |||