🆚 ActivityPub vs. Onion
- 📈 ActivityPub is noticeably more popular than Onion.
- 🌎 ActivityPub is more popular in Germany, the United States, and France.
- 🌍 Onion is more popular in Russia, Sweden, and Moldova.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
ActivityPubType
Standard
Standard
About
ActivityPub is a decentralized social networking protocol used by various Fediverse services such as 
Mastodon, 
Pixelfed, and PeerTube.
Onion sites are websites on the dark web that use the .onion top-level domain and are only accessible through online routing through Tor.
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
ActivityPub is 1.3 times more popular than Onion.
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 Onion is more popular in Russia, Sweden, and Moldova.
Germany
United States
France
Russia
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Japan
Canada
Finland
Portugal
Awards
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in Portugal in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 36th most popular in France in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 37th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 37th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 42nd most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in Russia in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 43rd most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 44th most popular in France in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 45th most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
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 Onion is more commonly used on general news, Internet services, and politics and opinion sites.
Social Networking
General News
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Internet Services
Politics/Opinion
Content Server
Finance/Banking
Education/Reference
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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JSON Web Token🗃️ 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.