🆚 Atom vs. JSON Feed
- 📈 JSON Feed is much more popular than Atom.
- 🌍 JSON Feed is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Syndication technology
Syndication technology
About
Atom is an 
XML-based web feed format used to syndicate content such as articles and updates, similar to 
RSS but defined as an IETF standard.
Unlike RSS, Atom uses a more strictly specified and extensible format with standardized date handling and unique entry IDs, which improves consistency and interoperability across feed readers and publishing systems.
JSON Feed is a feed file format for web syndication in 
JSON.
Headquarters
Fremont, California, United States
Categories
Syndication › Rank #3
Syndication › Rank #2
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
JSON Feed syndication technology is 14 times more popular than Atom.
Total websites
Market share
Syndication
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
JSON Feed is more popular than Atom in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Spain
France
Italy
Australia
Japan
Netherlands
Canada
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Syndication category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Syndication category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Syndication category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Syndication category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Syndication category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Cayman Islands in the Syndication category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Faroe Islands in the Syndication category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Bermuda in the Syndication category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Curacao in the Syndication category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vanuatu in the Syndication category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
JSON Feed is more popular than Atom in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Health
Travel
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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.