🆚 Humans.txt vs. Pingback
- 📈 Pingback is much more popular than Humans.txt.
- 🌍 Pingback is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Humans.txt
PingbackType
Standard
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.
Pingback is a method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.
Headquarters
Spain
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Pingback is 53 times more popular than Humans.txt.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Pingback is more popular than Humans.txt in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Spain
Italy
France
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
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.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Vietnam in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Macedonia in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Pingback is more popular than Humans.txt in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Internet Services
Travel
Health
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
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LLMs.txt🗃️ 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 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.