🆚 Atom vs. RSS
- 📈 RSS is much more popular than Atom.
- 🌍 RSS is more popular in all countries.
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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.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based web feed format that allows users to receive automatic updates from websites such as blogs, news outlets, and podcasts in a standardized, machine-readable form.
It enables content to be aggregated in feed readers without visiting each site, supports near real-time updates when new content is published, and is widely used for distributing articles, podcast episodes, and other regularly updated content across platforms and applications.
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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
- 🥉 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 United States in the Syndication category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Syndication category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Syndication category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Syndication category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Syndication category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
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.