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 3,558,654 websites
Most popular in the country United States of America
Market position in Document Standards #3
Market share in Document Standards 20.95%

Technology adoption

Recent changes in Description Meta usage. (See Description Meta Usage Changes report)
Websites that added Description Meta +47,354
Websites that dropped Description Meta -2,111,713

Distribution by websites popularity

Description Meta detection in the top websites by popularity
Top 10k sites 5,996 websites
Top 100k sites 44,378 websites
Top 1m sites 379,246 websites

Websites utilizing Description Meta

Top websites that use Description Meta

Domain Country Rank Contacts
www.instagram.com Ireland 7
www.pinterest.com United States of America 13
wordpress.org United States of America 14
www.youtube.com United States of America 14,442
www.facebook.com United States of America 22,750
www.linkedin.com United States of America 30,270
See full domain list

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 Encoding.
UTF-8 is used together with Description Meta on 3,298,996 domains. Total 8,702,930 domains found using UTF-8
Category - Document Standards.
JavaScript is used together with Description Meta on 3,265,048 domains. Total 6,622,159 domains found using JavaScript
Category - Mobile.
Viewport Meta is used together with Description Meta on 2,764,192 domains. Total 4,818,971 domains found using Viewport Meta
Category - Document Standards.
HTML5 Tags is used together with Description Meta on 2,506,701 domains. Total 4,360,978 domains found using HTML5 Tags
Category - JavaScript Libraries.
jQuery is used together with Description Meta on 2,464,325 domains. Total 4,177,824 domains found using jQuery
Category - Programming Languages.
PHP is used together with Description Meta on 2,015,030 domains. Total 3,965,788 domains found using PHP


Alternative Technologies


HTML5 Tags: Total 4,360,978 domains found using HTML5 Tags
JavaScript: Total 6,622,159 domains found using JavaScript
srcset: Total 114,222 domains found using srcset
X-UA-Compatible: Total 2,326,529 domains found using X-UA-Compatible