🆚 JSON vs. OAuth

📈 JSON is much more popular than OAuth.
🌍 JSON is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

JSON

OAuth

Type

Standard

About

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.

It represents data as key-value pairs and ordered arrays, supports various data types, and is widely used in web APIs, configuration files, and data storage.

OAuth is an open standard authorization protocol that allows applications to obtain limited access to user accounts without sharing passwords across web, mobile, and desktop environments.

It uses token-based authorization with access and refresh tokens, lets users grant specific permissions to applications such as access to profile data or contacts, and is widely adopted by online service providers such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and GitHub.

Headquarters

Fremont, California, United States

Website

json.org #518,939

oauth.net #601,158

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

JSON is 25 times more popular than OAuth.

Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

JSON is more popular than OAuth in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

Spain

Italy

Australia

Netherlands

Japan

Canada

Awards

🥉 Third most popular in Kenya in the Standards category.
🥉 Third most popular in Uganda in the Standards category.
🥉 Third most popular in Ghana in the Standards category.
🥉 Third most popular in Zimbabwe in the Standards category.
🥉 Third most popular in Senegal in the Standards category.

🔥 13rd most popular in Uruguay in the Standards category.
🔥 14th most popular in Brazil in the Standards category.
🔥 14th most popular in Indonesia in the Standards category.
🔥 14th most popular in Turkey in the Standards category.
🔥 14th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

JSON is more popular than OAuth in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

Travel

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#13