w3c

World Wide Web Consortium Joined Aug 2010 View on GitHub

Stars
66,996
across 1,083 public repos
Rank
#388
of 94,827 organizations, top 0.4%

Repositories with 50+ stars

w3c's repositories with their overall rank
RankRepositoryLanguageStars
13,201

CSS Working Group Editor Drafts

Bikeshed 4,905
18,383

Service Workers

Bikeshed 3,633
18,521

Intersection Observer

Bikeshed 3,607
33,023

Deliverables of the HTML Working Group until October 2018

HTML 2,062
34,213

The conformance checker for EPUB publications

Java 1,990
36,243 Bikeshed 1,883
44,944

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

HTML 1,523
45,951

Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials

Bikeshed 1,490
50,220

WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG)

HTML 1,362
52,322

WebCodecs is a flexible web API for encoding and decoding audio and video.

HTML 1,304
66,566

WebTransport is a web API for flexible data transport

Bikeshed 994
72,509

A Well-Known URL for Changing Passwords

Bikeshed 907
80,341

Requirements for Chinese Text Layout

HTML 813
83,689

SVG Working Group specifications

Bikeshed 778
85,903

Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA)

HTML 757
88,860

Manifest for web apps

HTML 730
89,642

Charter and administrivia for the WebExtensions Community Group (WECG)

Bikeshed 723
89,766

Remote control interface that enables introspection and control of user agents.

HTML 722
95,351

Web Application Security Working Group repo

HTML 675
96,670

A browser API to prevent DOM-Based Cross Site Scripting in modern web applications.

JavaScript 665
118,222

Web中文兴趣组

HTML 534
122,174

Bidirectional WebDriver protocol for browser automation

Bikeshed 515
123,015

Trace Context

Python 511
123,449

Payment Request API

HTML 509
124,326

Device Bound Session Credentials: A Protocol for Protecting From Cookie Theft

Bikeshed 505
127,812

Machine-readable references of terms defined in web browser specifications

JavaScript 489
128,718

WebRTC 1.0 API

HTML 485
129,950

W3C Decentralized Identifier Specification

HTML 480
142,643

A mechanism to selectively enable and disable browser features and APIs

Bikeshed 432
143,215

W3C Web Performance Working Group repo

HTML 430
152,402

Shared workspace for EPUB 3 specifications.

HTML 401
157,887

The MiniApps Working Group was closed on 26 August 2026. Please continue these discussions within the WebView Community Group https://www.w3.org/community/webview/.

JavaScript 385
161,245

W3C Verifiable Credentials v2.0 Specification

HTML 376
170,123

Web API proposal for sharing data from a web page

HTML 354
177,156

A machine-readable list of Web specifications

JavaScript 338
179,964

The Mobile Checker is a tool for Web developers who want to make their Web page or Web app work better on mobile devices.

JavaScript 332
187,804

Picture-in-Picture (PiP)

Bikeshed 316
189,400

Activity Streams 2.0

HTML 313
194,275 JavaScript 304
197,549

The W3C API

HTML 298
198,682

The W3C Web Cryptography API

HTML 296
199,251

WebSub Spec in Social Web Working Group

HTML 295
203,987

Media Source Extensions

HTML 287
204,615

Making RDF easy enough for most developers

Python 286
210,992

WebIDL parser

JavaScript 276
215,078

W3C Website feedback and bug reports

270
216,484

Bullet Chatting Proposal

HTML 268
217,837

Indexed Database API

Bikeshed 266
218,538

Paint Timing

Bikeshed 265
220,716

W3C Process Document

HTML 262
222,849

The document repo for the Web Payments Working Group

HTML 259
227,882

W3C CSS Validation Service

Java 252
237,463

Global Privacy Control Specification

HTML 240
240,750

Web of Things

HTML 236
249,529

WebAppSec Content Security Policy

HTML 226
271,442

Specs and explainers maintained by the editing task force

HTML 204
272,543 JavaScript 203
272,543

Framework for Web technology roadmaps

HTML 203
274,771

ARIA in HTML

HTML 201
275,963

Accessibility Guidelines "Silver"

HTML 200
279,476

Encrypted Media Extensions

HTML 197
280,670

Web API proposal for receiving shared data

HTML 196
289,277

WCAG 3

Astro 189
291,811

team-strat, on GitHub, working in public.

187
297,093

Interface to create and manage QUIC streams

HTML 183
312,780

Dataset Exchange Working Group

HTML 172
314,350

Data Shapes WG repo

HTML 171
317,555

Documents produced by the CSV on the Web Working Group

HTML 169
319,118

Repository for the Spatial Data on the Web Working Group

HTML 168
327,179

Libwww is a highly modular, general-purpose client side Web API written in C for Unix and Windows (Win32). It's well suited for both small and large applications, like browser/editors, robots,...

C 163
328,920

WebVTT parser and validator

JavaScript 162
330,611

UI Events

HTML 161
335,736

Push API

HTML 158
337,459

Web Annotation Working Group repository, see README for links to specs

HTML 157
337,459

Gamepad

HTML 157
337,459

Clipboard API and events

Bikeshed 157
342,852

This repository hosts the W3C WAI web site.

HTML 154
342,852

Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description

HTML 154
348,450

W3C Automotive Working Group Specifications

HTML 151
350,409

Decentralized Identifier Ecosystem Extensions

HTML 150
354,240

w3c.github.io

HTML 148
354,240

Check links and anchors in Web pages or full Web sites.

Perl 148
360,088

Repository used during WCAG 2.1 development. New issues, Technique ideas, and comments should be filed at the WCAG repository at https://github.com/w3c/wcag.

HTML 145
364,277 HTML 143
366,306

Secure Payment Confirmation (SPC)

Bikeshed 142
368,433

Text Layout Requirements for Japanese

HTML 141
372,809

Media Session API

Bikeshed 139
372,809

JSON-LD 1.1 Specification

HTML 139
377,298

Elements of HTML per version

HTML 137
379,551

Resource Timing

Bikeshed 136
379,551

W3C-customized version of the feedvalidator (forked from https://github.com/rubys/feedvalidator/)

Python 136
379,551

An HTTP API for performing verifiable credential lifecycle management.

HTML 136
381,774

WebRTC Statistics

HTML 135
384,064

Generic Sensor API

HTML 134
386,326

WebRTC Encoded Transform

Bikeshed 133
388,710

Media Capture and Streams specification (aka getUserMedia)

HTML 132
398,359

Unicorn - W3C's Unified Validator

Java 128
408,689

Cross-tab resource coordination API

Bikeshed 124
408,689

Maintenance of the PNG specification

HTML 124
411,280

Webmention spec

HTML 123

Among 94,827 organizations

63k–100k stars: 206 organizations, including w3c

Stars along the bottom, and organizations in each band on a log scale

Where the stars are

Languages

  1. HTML 25.5k stars, 38% · 110 repos
  2. Bikeshed 23.6k stars, 35% · 39 repos
  3. JavaScript 3.5k stars, 5% · 15 repos
  4. Java 2.4k stars, 4% · 3 repos
  5. Python 994 stars, 1% · 4 repos
  6. C 264 stars, <1% · 2 repos
  7. Astro 189 stars, <1% · 1 repo
  8. Perl 148 stars, <1% · 1 repo

and 7 more languages

When they were made

100 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2012 and 2023

Quick stats

Next rank
+53 stars to reach #387
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+123,729 stars to reach the top 0.1%
Public repos
1,083, 190 with 50+ stars
Popular repos
118 over 100 stars, 10 over 1k stars
Top repo
csswg-drafts, #13,201 of all repos, 7% of stars
Smaller repos
8,915 stars from repos under 50

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