🆚 FOAF vs. XFN
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 XFN is much more popular than FOAF.
- 🌍 XFN is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ FOAF is particularly popular in Japan.
XFNType
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.
XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
XFN is 36,988 times more popular than FOAF.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
XFN is more popular than FOAF in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Spain
Netherlands
Australia
Japan
Brazil
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Samoa in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Malawi in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
XFN is more popular than FOAF in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Name
Rank
#324,597
#1,052,738
#1,137,543
#3,586,944
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