🆚 Humans.txt vs. Sitemap
- 📈 Sitemap is noticeably more popular than Humans.txt.
- 🌎 Sitemap is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan.
- 🌍 Humans.txt is more popular in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Australia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
SitemapType
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.
A sitemap is a file in 
XML format that allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling.
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Sitemap is 1.5 times more popular than Humans.txt.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Sitemap is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan, while Humans.txt is more popular in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Australia.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Netherlands
Japan
France
Australia
Canada
Belgium
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.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Slovenia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Azerbaijan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Taiwan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Sitemap is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and Internet services, while Humans.txt is more commonly used on education and reference, travel, and non-profit, advocacy and NGO sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Travel
Entertainment
Sports
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Name
Rank
#94
#836
#903
#956
#965
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OpenSearch🗃️ 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.