🆚 JSON vs. XML

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
JSON
XML

Type

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.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing structured data in a platform-independent way.

It uses a hierarchical tree structure with custom-defined tags, supports schemas such as DTD and XML Schema for validation, enables namespaces to avoid naming conflicts, and is widely used in formats and protocols such as RSS, SOAP, and configuration files.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

json.org #518,939
w3.org/XML/ #12,884

Categories

Standards › Rank #4
Standards › Rank #28

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

JSON is 103 times more popular than XML.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

JSON is more popular than XML in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Italy
Australia
Japan
Netherlands
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

JSON is more popular than XML in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#2
#5
#7
#8
#13
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Rank
#940
#1,010
#1,288
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