🆚 JSON Feed vs. RSS

📈 RSS is noticeably more popular than JSON Feed.
🌎 RSS is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 JSON Feed is more popular in the Cayman Islands, the Faroe Islands, and Bermuda.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

JSON Feed

RSS

Type

Syndication technology

About

JSON Feed is a feed file format for web syndication in JSON.

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based web feed format that allows users to receive automatic updates from websites such as blogs, news outlets, and podcasts in a standardized, machine-readable form.

It enables content to be aggregated in feed readers without visiting each site, supports near real-time updates when new content is published, and is widely used for distributing articles, podcast episodes, and other regularly updated content across platforms and applications.

Website

jsonfeed.org #4,096,172

rssboard.org #2,789,865

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

RSS syndication technology is 1.3 times more popular than JSON Feed.

Total websites

Market share

Syndication

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

RSS is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while JSON Feed is more popular in the Cayman Islands, the Faroe Islands, and Bermuda.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Spain

Japan

France

Italy

Australia

Netherlands

Canada

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the Cayman Islands in the Syndication category.
🥇 Most popular in the Faroe Islands in the Syndication category.
🥇 Most popular in Bermuda in the Syndication category.
🥇 Most popular in Curacao in the Syndication category.
🥇 Most popular in Vanuatu in the Syndication category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Syndication category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Syndication category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Syndication category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Syndication category.
🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Syndication category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

RSS is more popular among sites focused on business, blogs and wiki, and education and reference, while JSON Feed is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, travel, and art, culture and heritage sites.

Business

Blogs/Wiki

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#17

#447

#556

#590

Name

Rank

p**nhub.com

#26

#50

#55

#56

#83