Shift JIS

Category - Document Encoding

Shift JIS (Shift Japanese Industrial Standards) is a character encoding for Japanese language.


We have discovered 402,226 live websites that are using Shift JIS.

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Technology usage statistics

Websites using Shift JIS402,226 websites
Most popular in the country JP
Market position in Document Encoding#5
Market share in Document Encoding0.44%

Technology adoption

Recent changes in Shift JIS usage. (See Shift JIS Usage Changes report)
Websites that added Shift JIS+8,370
Websites that dropped Shift JIS-30,203

Distribution by websites popularity

Shift JIS detection in the top websites by popularity
Top 10k sites14 websites
Top 100k sites199 websites
Top 1m sites2,729 websites

Websites utilizing Shift JIS

Top websites that use Shift JIS

DomainCountryRankContacts
thumbnail.image.rakuten.co.jp JP2,025
blog.ss-blog.jp JP2,477
web.xaas3.jp JP5,209
kent-web.com BD5,464
ssl.form-mailer.jp JP5,649
ssl.xaas3.jp JP5,744
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Market Share

Shift JIS market share within the Document Encoding category

Geographical Distribution

Technology usage distribution by websites across the globe.






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ISO-8859-1: Total 16,352,780 domains found using ISO-8859-1
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GBK: Total 415,639 domains found using GBK
windows-1251: Total 341,636 domains found using windows-1251
UTF-16: Total 2,571 domains found using UTF-16
UTF-32: Total 55 domains found using UTF-32




Alternative Names

  • Shift Japanese Industrial Standards