🆚 IndieAuth vs. OpenID
- 📈 OpenID is much more popular than IndieAuth.
- 🌍 OpenID is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Standard
Standard
About
IndieAuth is a decentralized identity protocol built on top of
OAuth 2.0.
OpenID is a decentralized authentication protocol based on
OAuth 2.0 that enables applications to verify a user's identity through an external identity provider instead of managing credentials directly.
It adds an identity layer on top of
OAuth by issuing ID tokens that confirm who the user is, supports single sign-on across multiple services, and allows retrieval of basic profile information.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
San Ramon, California, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
OpenID is 144 times more popular than IndieAuth.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
OpenID is more popular than IndieAuth in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
India
France
Spain
Brazil
Germany
Indonesia
Italy
Netherlands
Awards
- 🔥 17th most popular in Uruguay in the Standards category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Indonesia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Thailand in the Standards category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in India in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
OpenID is more popular than IndieAuth in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Blogs/Wiki
General News
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Travel
Sports
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 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.


