Description Meta

Category - Document Standards

Description meta provides a short description for the page content. The description attribute is supported by most search engines, and can be used to provide a short preview of the page content in the search result page.

Technology usage statistics

Websites using Description Meta 3,538,608 websites
Most popular in the country United States of America
Market position in Document Standards #3
Market share in Document Standards 21.77%

Technology adoption

Recent changes in Description Meta usage. (See Description Meta Usage Changes report)
Websites that added Description Meta +64,624
Websites that dropped Description Meta -70,684

Distribution by websites popularity

Description Meta detection in the top websites by popularity
Top 10k sites 6,022 websites
Top 100k sites 44,761 websites
Top 1m sites 391,177 websites

Websites utilizing Description Meta

Top websites that use Description Meta

Domain Country Rank Contacts
www.facebook.com Ireland 2
www.youtube.com United States of America 4
www.instagram.com Ireland 7
www.pinterest.com United States of America 13
wordpress.org United States of America 14
www.amazon.com United States of America 21
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Market Share

Description Meta market share within the Document Standards category

Geographical Distribution

Technology usage distribution by websites across the globe.






Description Meta often used together with


Category - Document Standards.
JavaScript is used together with Description Meta on 3,315,093 domains. Total 6,343,077 domains found using JavaScript
Category - Document Encoding.
UTF-8 is used together with Description Meta on 3,273,636 domains. Total 8,286,074 domains found using UTF-8
Category - Mobile.
Viewport Meta is used together with Description Meta on 2,800,997 domains. Total 4,852,013 domains found using Viewport Meta
Category - Document Standards.
HTML5 Tags is used together with Description Meta on 2,518,791 domains. Total 4,050,253 domains found using HTML5 Tags
Category - JavaScript Libraries.
jQuery is used together with Description Meta on 2,430,736 domains. Total 3,817,076 domains found using jQuery
Category - Programming Languages.
PHP is used together with Description Meta on 1,973,658 domains. Total 3,751,955 domains found using PHP


Alternative Technologies


HTML5 Tags: Total 4,050,253 domains found using HTML5 Tags
JavaScript: Total 6,343,077 domains found using JavaScript
srcset: Total 88,115 domains found using srcset
X-UA-Compatible: Total 2,234,737 domains found using X-UA-Compatible