🆚 CGI vs. XFN
- 📈 XFN is much more popular than CGI.
- 🌎 XFN is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 CGI is more popular in Equatorial Guinea.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
XFNType
Standard
Standard
About
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is an interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.
XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an 
HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.
Headquarters
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
XFN is 27 times more popular than CGI.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
XFN is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while CGI is more popular in Equatorial Guinea.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Spain
Netherlands
Australia
Japan
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.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Sierra Leone in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Nigeria in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Kenya in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
XFN is more popular than CGI in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
CSS
JSON
Rack
ESI
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.