🆚 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 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
OpenSearchType
Standard
Standard
About
Humans.txt is a text file that can be created by developers to list the people who have contributed to a website.
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
Seattle, Washington, United States
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
Italy
Spain
Ukraine
Poland
Awards
- 🔥 17th most popular in Belgium in the Standards category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Norway in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in the Netherlands in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Australia in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd 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, travel, and real estate sites.
Business
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Internet Services
Public Information
General News
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Amazon company profile🗃️ 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.