🆚 ActivityPub vs. OpenPGP
- 📈 ActivityPub is five times more popular than OpenPGP.
- 🌎 ActivityPub is more popular in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 OpenPGP is more popular in Russia, Slovenia, and Macedonia.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
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 5 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 the United Kingdom, while OpenPGP is more popular in Russia, Slovenia, and Macedonia.
Germany
United States
United Kingdom
France
Japan
Canada
Netherlands
Finland
Portugal
Spain
Awards
- ⬆️ 40th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 40th most popular in France in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 43rd 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 software and hardware, personal pages, and Internet services sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Social Networking
Business
Software/Hardware
Personal Pages
Content Server
Internet Services
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
Technical/Business Forums
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

