🆚 ESI vs. SearchAction

📈 SearchAction is much more popular than ESI.
🌍 SearchAction is more popular in all countries.
⭐ ESI is particularly popular in France.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

ESI

SearchAction

Type

Standard

Semantic markup technology

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.

SearchAction is a structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.

Before November 2024, it was used by Google to enable the "Sitelinks Search Box" feature, which displayed a search bar for a website directly within the search results snippet. However, since Google deprecated this feature, there is no evidence that other search engines or apps currently support it.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

w3.org/TR/esi-lang/ #12,884

schema.org/SearchAction #99,288

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

SearchAction semantic markup technology is 1,967 times more popular than ESI.

Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

SearchAction is more popular than ESI in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

Spain

Italy

Netherlands

Australia

Japan

Canada

Awards

⬆️ 30th most popular in Finland in the Standards category.
⬆️ 37th most popular in France in the Standards category.
⬆️ 44th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.

⭐ 4th most popular in Vietnam in the Standards category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Ukraine in the Standards category.
⭐ 5th most popular in France in the Standards category.
⭐ 5th most popular in France in the Semantic Markup category.
⭐ 5th most popular in India in the Semantic Markup category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

SearchAction is more popular than ESI in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Travel

Entertainment

Health

General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#451

#1,981

#2,616

#3,341

#4,352

Name

Rank

#15

#17

p**nhub.com

#26