🆚 IndieAuth vs. OAuth
- 📈 OAuth is much more popular than IndieAuth.
- 🌍 OAuth is more popular in all countries.
IndieAuth
OAuthType
About
IndieAuth is a decentralized identity protocol built on top of OAuth 2.0.
OAuth is an open standard authorization protocol that allows applications to obtain limited access to user accounts without sharing passwords across web, mobile, and desktop environments.
It uses token-based authorization with access and refresh tokens, lets users grant specific permissions to applications such as access to profile data or contacts, and is widely adopted by online service providers such as 
Google, 
Facebook, 
Microsoft, and 
GitHub.
Headquarters
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⬆️ 44th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 47th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 50th most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Uruguay in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Brazil in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Indonesia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Argentina in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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- 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.