🆚 JSON-LD vs. Microformats2

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Semantic markup technology
Semantic markup technology

About

JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data (JSON-LD) is a lightweight linked data format used to embed structured data into web pages.

Microformats are a set of defined HTML classes and attributes created to serve as descriptive metadata about an element, representing commonly published things like people, events, blog posts, reviews, and so on.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

Categories

Semantic Markup › Rank #4
Semantic Markup › Rank #11

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

JSON-LD semantic markup technology is 499 times more popular than Microformats2.
Total websites

Market share

Semantic Markup

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

JSON-LD is more popular than Microformats2 in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Japan
Spain
Netherlands
Italy
Australia
India

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

JSON-LD is more popular than Microformats2 in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Travel
Entertainment
Health
General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
p**nhub.com
#26
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Name
Rank
#510
#2,277
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See also

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