🆚 ESI vs. RSD
- 📈 RSD is much more popular than ESI.
- 🌍 RSD is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ ESI is particularly popular in France.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Standard
Standard
About
Edge Side Includes (ESI) is a simple markup language used to define web page components for dynamic assembly and delivery of web applications at the edge of the Internet.
Really Simple Discovery (RSD) is an XML format that allows client software to discover services provided by web publishing systems.
It helps clients find endpoints for reading, editing, and interacting with website content through APIs.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Wesley Hills, New York, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
RSD is 2,270 times more popular than ESI.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
RSD is more popular than ESI in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
Japan
France
Italy
Australia
Netherlands
Brazil
Awards
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in Finland in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 38th most popular in France 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 Iran in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Serbia in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
RSD is more popular than ESI 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.
See also
🗃️ 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 3,619,357 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.



