🆚 Dublin Core vs. Microformats
- 📈 Microformats is three times more popular than Dublin Core.
- 🌎 Microformats is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Dublin Core is more popular in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Vietnam.
Dublin Core
MicroformatsType
About
Dublin Core is a metadata element set used to describe documents and other digital or physical resources in a standardized way.
It defines 15 core elements including title, creator, subject, description, publisher, and date, and provides a simple, extensible schema that supports cross-domain resource description and interoperability across different systems.
Microformats (μF) are a set of standardized 
HTML class names and attributes used to embed descriptive metadata within existing page content for entities such as people, events, reviews, and blog posts.
The original Microformats v1 specification defined formats such as hCard for people and organizations, hCalendar for events, hReview for reviews, hRecipe for recipes, and hProduct for commerce data, using conventional HTML class attributes.
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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
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Hungary in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Vietnam in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Slovakia in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Japan in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Spain in the Semantic Markup category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ 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 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.