🆚 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 Guernsey.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
RSDType
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 allows client software to discover services provided by web publishing systems.
It helps clients find endpoints for reading, editing, and interacting with website content through APIs.
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Wesley Hills, New York, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
RSD is 22 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 Guernsey.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Spain
Italy
France
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Seychelles in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Cyprus in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Panama in the Standards category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in El Salvador in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Bulgaria in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Lithuania in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
RSD is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while Acceptable Ads is more commonly used on online shopping sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.