🆚 Atom vs. JSON Feed

📈 JSON Feed is much more popular than Atom.
🌍 JSON Feed is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Atom

JSON Feed

Type

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 web syndication format that delivers website updates and published content in JSON instead of XML-based formats such as RSS and Atom.

It defines a structured feed format with support for articles, summaries, authors, tags, attachments, and custom extensions, and is commonly used by blogs, news sites, podcast platforms, and APIs.

Headquarters

Fremont, California, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287 #68,844

jsonfeed.org #4,096,172

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

France

Spain

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 France 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.
🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Syndication category.
🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom 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.

Name

Rank

#167

#326

#490

#674

Name

Rank

#17

#447

#556

#590