🆚 JSON vs. Pingback
- 📈 JSON is twice as popular as Pingback.
- 🌍 JSON is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
JSON
PingbackType
Standard
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.
Pingback is a method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
JSON is 2.5 times more popular than Pingback.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
JSON is more popular than Pingback in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Italy
Japan
Australia
Netherlands
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.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Vietnam in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Macedonia in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
JSON is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while Pingback is more commonly used on recreation and hobbies sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
CSS
HTML
YAML
XML
WebAssembly🗃️ 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 3,532,692 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.