🆚 IndieAuth vs. OpenPGP
- OpenPGP is slightly more popular than IndieAuth.
- OpenPGP is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
IndieAuth is more popular in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.
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.
OpenPGP is a non-proprietary protocol for encrypting email using public key cryptography.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
OpenPGP is 1.1 times more popular than IndieAuth.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
OpenPGP is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, while IndieAuth is more popular in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.
Germany
United States
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Canada
Australia
Sweden
Japan
Spain
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
OpenPGP is more popular among sites focused on software and hardware, personal pages, and Internet services, while IndieAuth is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, technical, business forums, and forum, bulletin boards sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Personal Pages
Technical/Business Forums
Internet Services
Politics/Opinion
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Entertainment
Technical Information
Education/Reference
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 4,046,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.