🆚 Mark of the Web vs. Paywall
- 📈 Paywall is much more popular than Mark of the Web.
- 🌎 Paywall is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 Mark of the Web is more popular in China, Russia, and Iran.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Mark of the WebType
Other technology
Other technology
About
Mark of the Web is a special 
HTML comment that references the security zone for Internet Explorer.
Websites with paywalls, which limit access to content until users subscribe or pay.
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington, United States
PaywallPopularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Paywall technology is 7 times more popular than Mark of the Web.
Total websites
Market share
Other
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Paywall is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Mark of the Web is more popular in China, Russia, and Iran.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
France
Canada
Brazil
Australia
Italy
Spain
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Paywall is more popular than Mark of the Web in all market segments.
General News
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Sports
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
Charset🗃️ 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.