🆚 HTML vs. Pingback

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Standard
Standard

About

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language used to create web pages and is the de facto standard for documents displayed in web browsers.

It defines the structure of web content using elements for text, links, images, forms, tables, and embedded media, organizes documents into a hierarchical DOM, and enables hyperlinking between pages, which is a fundamental mechanism of the World Wide Web.

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Pingback is an XML-RPC-based protocol that allows websites to notify each other when one links to another.

A website can advertise its Pingback endpoint through an HTML link element or the X-Pingback HTTP header, allowing compatible blogging platforms and clients to send notifications automatically.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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Standards › Rank #2
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Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

HTML is 6 times more popular than Pingback.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

HTML is more popular than Pingback in all countries.
United States
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Spain
Netherlands
Russia
Australia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

HTML is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and blogs and wiki, while Pingback is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, travel, and real estate sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
General News
Software/Hardware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
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Name
Rank
vailonxx.co
#832
hdp**ncomics.com
#857
xvideo.vlog.br
#967
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