the advantages of web standards are given below
- easy format conversion : document which follow standards can easily be converted to other formats , such as databases or word document
- greater visibility in web searches : the structural information present in documents makes it easy for search engines to access and evaluate the information in those documents , and they get indexed more accurately
- Accessibility : it is an important idea behind many web standards , especially HTML . not only mean allowing the web to be used by people , but also allowing web pages to be understood by people using browsers other than the usual ones like voice browsers, etc.
- comprehensive : it is important that the developers are able to comprehended the code and edit it easily .
- Device compatibility : web pages will display in an wide variety of browsers and computers .
- Faster loading : w3c standars promote the use of cascading style sheet (CSS) or design code which is attached to the web page rather than embedded in the page . the use of style sheets significantly reduces the page file size which means not inly a faster page loading time but lower hosting costs for frequently visited sites due to using less bandwidth .
- Flexibility : design features such as color and fonts can be easily changed by just modifying one style sheet instead of editing every individual page in a web site .
- Indexing : search engines are able to access and index pages designed to web standards with greater efficiency .