🆚 ActivityPub vs. Webmention

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Standard
Standard

About

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

Webmention is a simple protocol to notify any URL when a website links to it, and for web pages to request notifications when somebody links to them.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

Categories

Standards › Rank #46
Standards › Rank #39

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Webmention is 3 times more popular than ActivityPub.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Webmention is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while ActivityPub is more popular in France, Portugal, and Japan.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Canada
Portugal
Australia
Japan
Sweden

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Webmention is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, business, and technical, business forums, while ActivityPub is more commonly used on social networking and content server sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Social Networking
Technical/Business Forums
Internet Services
General News
Entertainment
Games
Personal Pages
Technical Information

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#35,763
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Name
Rank
#13,052
#16,292
#16,434
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