🆚 FOAF vs. RSD
- 📈 RSD is much more popular than FOAF.
- 🌍 RSD is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ FOAF is particularly popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Standard
Standard
About
FOAF (Friend Of A Friend) is a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects.
Really Simple Discovery (RSD) is an 
XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
RSD is 64,028 times more popular than FOAF.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
RSD is more popular than FOAF in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
Italy
Japan
France
Australia
Netherlands
Brazil
Awards
- 🥉 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 Spain in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Italy in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
RSD is more popular than FOAF 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.
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OpenSearch🗃️ 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.