🆚 JSON vs. XFN

📈 JSON is twice as popular as XFN.
🌍 JSON is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

JSON

XFN

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.

XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.

It defines a set of standardized link relationship values such as friend, colleague, spouse, and acquaintance through the HTML "rel" attribute, and may be used by blogs, social networks, and personal websites to describe social connections in a machine-readable format.

Headquarters

United States

Website

json.org #518,939

gmpg.org/xfn/ #2,471,084

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

JSON is 2 times more popular than XFN.

Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

JSON is more popular than XFN in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

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 Jamaica in the Standards category.

⭐ 6th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Algeria in the Standards category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Tajikistan in the Standards category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Zambia in the Standards category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Myanmar 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 XFN is more commonly used on recreation and hobbies, and art, culture and heritage sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Travel

Entertainment

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#13

#15

Name

Rank

#140

#228

#304

#365

#420