🆚 Acceptable Ads vs. RSD
- 📈 RSD is much more popular than Acceptable Ads.
- 🌎 RSD is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Acceptable Ads is more popular in the British Virgin Islands, Seychelles, and the Marshall Islands.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Standard
Standard
About
Acceptable Ads is a set of criteria defined by the independent Acceptable Ads Committee that allows publishers to reach ad-blocking users with respectful, non-intrusive and relevant ads.
Really Simple Discovery (RSD) is an 
XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
RSD is 14 times more popular than Acceptable Ads.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
RSD is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Acceptable Ads is more popular in the British Virgin Islands, Seychelles, and the Marshall Islands.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
Italy
Japan
France
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Seychelles in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Marshall Islands in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Guernsey in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Palau in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in El Salvador in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Libya in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Spain in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Italy in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
RSD is more popular than Acceptable Ads in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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OpenSearch🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.