🆚 Acceptable Ads vs. XFN
- 📈 XFN is much more popular than Acceptable Ads.
- 🌎 XFN is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Acceptable Ads is more popular in the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, and Seychelles.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
XFNType
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.
XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an 
HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
XFN is 9 times more popular than Acceptable Ads.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
XFN is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Acceptable Ads is more popular in the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, and Seychelles.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
Canada
India
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.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Sierra Leone in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Nigeria in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Kenya in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
XFN is more popular than Acceptable Ads in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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XHTML🗃️ 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.