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Usage statistics of UTF-8 for websites

These diagrams show the usage statistics of UTF-8 as character encoding on the web. See technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys. Our reports are updated daily.

UTF-8 is used by 98.2% of all the websites whose character encoding we know.

Historical trend

This diagram shows the historical trend in the percentage of websites using UTF-8.
Our dedicated trend survey shows more character encodings usage trends.

Popular sites using UTF-8

• Google.com
• Facebook.com
• Microsoft.com
• Apple.com
• Youtube.com
• Twitter.com
• Instagram.com
• Linkedin.com
• Office.com
• Wikipedia.org

Random selection of sites using UTF-8

• Tennistemple.com
• Ua.es
• Telegraph.co.uk
• Skidrowcodex.net
• Toomics.global

Sites using UTF-8 only recently

• Kooora.com
• Toranoana.jp
• Prodevreal.com
• Kino-teatr.ru
• Bancoestado.cl

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