🆚 IDN vs. XFN
- 📈 XFN is much more popular than IDN.
- 🌍 XFN is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ IDN is particularly popular in Russia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
XFNType
Standard
Standard
About
Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) allow people around the world to use domain names in local languages, such as Arabic, Chinese, or Cyrillic.
XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an 
HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
XFN is 207 times more popular than IDN.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
XFN is more popular than IDN in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
Brazil
India
Awards
- 🔥 16th most popular in Russia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Belarus in the Standards category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Thailand in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in Denmark in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Sierra Leone in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Nigeria in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Kenya in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
XFN is more popular than IDN in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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XHTML🗃️ 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.