🆚 ActivityPub vs. OpenPGP
- 📈 ActivityPub is four times more popular than OpenPGP.
- 🌎 ActivityPub is more popular in Germany, the United States, and France.
- 🌍 OpenPGP is more popular in Russia, Norway, and Romania.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ 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.
OpenPGP is a non-proprietary protocol for encrypting email using public key cryptography.
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
ActivityPub is 4 times more popular than OpenPGP.
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 OpenPGP is more popular in Russia, Norway, and Romania.
Germany
United States
France
United Kingdom
Japan
Netherlands
Canada
Portugal
Finland
Spain
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.
- ⬆️ 42nd most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 49th 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 blogs and wiki, social networking, and business, while OpenPGP is more commonly used on personal pages, software and hardware, and Internet services sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Social Networking
Business
Personal Pages
Software/Hardware
Content Server
Internet Services
Politics/Opinion
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
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 3,531,690 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.