windows-1251

Category - Document Encoding

Windows-1251 is an 8-bit character encoding, designed to cover languages that use the Cyrillic script such as Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic.


We have discovered 352,305 live websites that are using windows-1251.

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Technology usage statistics

Websites using windows-1251352,305 websites
Most popular in the country RU
Market position in Document Encoding#6
Market share in Document Encoding0.38%

Technology adoption

Recent changes in windows-1251 usage. (See windows-1251 Usage Changes report)
Websites that added windows-1251+25,636
Websites that dropped windows-1251-39,387

Distribution by websites popularity

windows-1251 detection in the top websites by popularity
Top 10k sites38 websites
Top 100k sites320 websites
Top 1m sites4,575 websites

Websites utilizing windows-1251

Top websites that use windows-1251

DomainCountryRankContacts
vk.com RU74
www.deviantart.com US252
top.mail.ru RU323
vkontakte.ru RU669
www.liveinternet.ru RU738
ssp.rambler.ru RU1,704
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Market Share

windows-1251 market share within the Document Encoding category

Geographical Distribution

Technology usage distribution by websites across the globe.






Alternative Technologies


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ISO-8859-1: Total 16,687,805 domains found using ISO-8859-1
GB2312: Total 2,613,225 domains found using GB2312
GBK: Total 462,092 domains found using GBK
Shift JIS: Total 415,253 domains found using Shift JIS
UTF-16: Total 2,666 domains found using UTF-16
UTF-32: Total 54 domains found using UTF-32