🆚 FOAF vs. XFN

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.

XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.

It defines a set of standardized link relationship values such as friend, colleague, spouse, and acquaintance through the HTML "rel" attribute, and may be used by blogs, social networks, and personal websites to describe social connections in a machine-readable format.

Headquarters

United States

Website

Categories

Standards › Rank #54
Standards › Rank #10

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

XFN is 33,415 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
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
Brazil
India

Awards

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
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#341,177
#974,563
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