🆚 e-GMS vs. Microformats
- 📈 Microformats is much more popular than e-GMS.
- 🌎 Microformats is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan.
- 🌍 e-GMS is more popular in Guernsey and Jersey.
e-GMS
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About
e-GMS, the UK e-Government Metadata Standard, published by Cabinet Office, is a definition of the metadata elements that should be applied to public sector information assets.
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 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
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 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.