🆚 ActivityPub vs. Micropub

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
ActivityPub
Micropub

Type

Standard
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

Categories

Standards › Rank #43
Standards › Rank #51

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

ActivityPub is 7 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 in Germany, the United States, and France, while Micropub is more popular in Brazil.
Germany
United States
France
United Kingdom
Japan
Canada
Portugal
Netherlands
Finland
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

ActivityPub is more popular among sites focused on social networking, blogs and wiki, and business, while Micropub is more commonly used on technical, business forums and technical information sites.
Social Networking
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Content Server
Internet Services
Technical/Business Forums
Technical Information
Personal Pages
Entertainment
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#19,324
#23,182
#35,763
#52,892
#76,122
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Name
Rank
#25,778
#212,185
#725,935
#950,186
#964,293
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See also

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