🆚 ARIA vs. XFN
- 📈 ARIA is four times more popular than XFN.
- 🌍 ARIA is more popular in all countries.
ARIA
XFNType
About
ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) is a technical specification from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative that defines how to improve the accessibility of web content and applications, particularly those with dynamic interfaces and custom controls.
It provides a set of roles and properties that can be added to 
HTML to describe user interface elements, their relationships, and current states, enabling assistive technologies such as screen readers to interpret widgets, live updates, and complex interactions that are not natively accessible.
XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.
It defines a set of standardized link relationship values such as friend, colleague, spouse, and acquaintance through the HTML "rel" attribute, and may be used by blogs, social networks, and personal websites to describe social connections in a machine-readable format.
Headquarters
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Brunei Darussalam in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in France in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Algeria in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Tajikistan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Zambia in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 3,906,822 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.