🆚 ActivityPub vs. Webmention
- 📈 Webmention is twice as popular as ActivityPub.
- 🌎 Webmention is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
- 🌍 ActivityPub is more popular in Germany, France, and Japan.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
ActivityPub
WebmentionType
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
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Webmention is 2.2 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, the United Kingdom, and Canada, while ActivityPub is more popular in Germany, France, and Japan.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Canada
Netherlands
Japan
Australia
Portugal
Spain
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.
- ⬆️ 35th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 37th most popular in Australia in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 37th most popular in Sweden in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 38th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 39th most popular in Canada in the Standards category.
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
Education/Reference
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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XFN🗃️ 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.