🆚 ActivityPub vs. Micropub

📈 ActivityPub is much more popular than Micropub.
🌍 ActivityPub is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

ActivityPub

Micropub

Type

Standard

About

ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol used by various Fediverse services such as Mastodon, Pixelfed, and PeerTube.

Micropub is an HTTP-based client-server protocol used to create, update, and delete posts on servers using third-party clients.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

activitypub.rocks

w3.org/TR/micropub/ #12,884

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

ActivityPub is 9 times more popular than Micropub.

Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

ActivityPub is more popular than Micropub in all countries.

Germany

United States

France

United Kingdom

Canada

Japan

Netherlands

Portugal

Finland

Australia

Awards

⬆️ 33rd most popular in Portugal in the Standards category.
⬆️ 36th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
⬆️ 36th most popular in France in the Standards category.
⬆️ 37th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
⬆️ 41st most popular in the United Kingdom in the Standards category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

ActivityPub is more popular than Micropub in all market segments.

Blogs/Wiki

Social Networking

Business

Content Server

Personal Pages

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Technical/Business Forums

Forum/Bulletin Boards

Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#19,324

#23,182

#23,248

#26,757

#35,763

Name

Rank

#25,778

#212,185

#725,935

#950,186

#964,293