🆚 IPFS vs. Onion
- 📈 Onion is much more popular than IPFS.
- 🌍 Onion is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Standard
Standard
About
The Interplanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer-to-peer protocol for storing and accessing files and websites in a decentralized file system.
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
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Onion is 13 times more popular than IPFS.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Onion is more popular than IPFS in all countries.
Russia
United States
Germany
France
Netherlands
Moldova
United Kingdom
Sweden
Finland
Iceland
Awards
- ⬆️ 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 blogs and wiki, while IPFS is more commonly used on sports sites.
General News
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Finance/Banking
Politics/Opinion
Software/Hardware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Education/Reference
Resource Sharing
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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JSON Web Token🗃️ 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.