🆚 Humans.txt vs. OpenSearch

📈 OpenSearch is four times more popular than Humans.txt.
🌎 OpenSearch is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Humans.txt is more popular in Australia, Belgium, and Norway.

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

Humans.txt

OpenSearch

Type

Standard

About

Humans.txt is a plain text file that allows website creators to identify and credit the people involved in developing a website.

It may include information about developers, designers, and technologies used on the site, and is typically referenced through the <link rel="author"> HTML element.

OpenSearch is a specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.

It is implemented as a linked XML file and was originally developed by Amazon to make it easier for other applications to integrate their search services.

Headquarters

Spain

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

humanstxt.org

GitHub #13

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

OpenSearch is 4 times more popular than Humans.txt.

Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

OpenSearch is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Humans.txt is more popular in Australia, Belgium, and Norway.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Russia

France

Netherlands

Spain

Italy

Ukraine

Poland

Awards

🔥 18th most popular in Belgium in the Standards category.
🔥 19th most popular in Norway in the Standards category.
⬆️ 23rd most popular in the Netherlands in the Standards category.
⬆️ 23rd most popular in Australia in the Standards category.
⬆️ 23rd most popular in Austria in the Standards category.

🔥 13rd most popular in Kazakhstan in the Standards category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Azerbaijan in the Standards category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Uzbekistan in the Standards category.
🔥 13rd most popular in the Dominican Republic in the Standards category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Tajikistan in the Standards category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

OpenSearch is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and blogs and wiki, while Humans.txt is more commonly used on art, culture and heritage, non-profit, advocacy and NGO, and real estate sites.

Business

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Internet Services

Travel

Public Information

General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#410

#429

#510

#1,701

#1,941

Name

Rank

#12

#13

#15

#22