🆚 IndieAuth vs. Onion
- 📈 Onion is three times more popular than IndieAuth.
- 🌎 Onion is more popular in Russia, the United States, and Germany.
- 🌎 IndieAuth is more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Brazil.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Standard
Standard
About
IndieAuth is a decentralized identity protocol built on top of OAuth 2.0.
Onion sites are websites on the dark web that use the .onion top-level domain and are only accessible through online routing through Tor.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Onion is 3 times more popular than IndieAuth.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Onion is more popular in Russia, the United States, and Germany, while IndieAuth is more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Brazil.
Russia
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Moldova
Sweden
Canada
Finland
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.
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in Russia in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 43rd most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 44th most popular in France in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 45th most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Onion is more popular among sites focused on general news, Internet services, and business, while IndieAuth is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, technical, business forums, and personal pages sites.
General News
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Business
Politics/Opinion
Software/Hardware
Finance/Banking
Education/Reference
Technical/Business Forums
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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.

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