🆚 LLMs.txt vs. Sitemap
- 📈 Sitemap is much more popular than LLMs.txt.
- 🌍 Sitemap is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
SitemapType
Standard
Standard
About
The llms.txt file is a proposed standard that provides structured content and instructions to guide large language models (LLMs) in understanding and summarizing a website's content.
It typically resides in the root directory and uses the 
Markdown format.
A sitemap is a file in 
XML format that allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling.
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Sitemap is 8 times more popular than LLMs.txt.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Sitemap is more popular than LLMs.txt in all countries.
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Netherlands
Poland
Brazil
Australia
India
Awards
- ⬆️ 27th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 33rd most popular in India in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 35th most popular in Spain in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 36th most popular in Brazil in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 36th most popular in Poland in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Slovenia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Azerbaijan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Taiwan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Sitemap is more popular than LLMs.txt in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Sports
Education/Reference
Software/Hardware
Travel
Entertainment
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Name
Rank
#94
#836
#903
#956
#965
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OpenSearch🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.