🆚 CGI vs. RSD
- 📈 RSD is much more popular than CGI.
- 🌍 RSD is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Standard
Standard
About
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is an interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.
Really Simple Discovery (RSD) is an 
XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.
Headquarters
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
RSD is 43 times more popular than CGI.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
RSD is more popular than CGI in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Spain
Italy
France
Australia
Netherlands
Brazil
Awards
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Palestine in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Nigeria in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Nepal in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Tunisia in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in El Salvador in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Libya in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Spain in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Italy in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
RSD is more popular than CGI in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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HTML
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Apache Software Foundation company profile🗃️ 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.