UTF-8 is the dominant encoding for the World Wide Web (and internet technologies), accounting for 97.9% of all web pages, over 99.0% of the top 10,000 pages, and up to 100.0% for many languages, as of 2023. Virtually all countries and languages have 95.0% or more use of UTF-8 encodings on the web.
What is the dominant character encoding for the World Wide Web?
The dominant character encoding for the World Wide Web is UTF-8. It is used by 97.9% of all web pages.