🆚 Markdown vs. RSD
- 📈 RSD is much more popular than Markdown.
- 🌍 RSD is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
MarkdownType
Standard
Standard
About
Markdown is a lightweight markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents using simple, human-readable syntax.
It defines elements such as headings, lists, links, images, code blocks, and emphasis through a simple set of symbols like "#*`[]()", and supports extensions for tables, footnotes, and task lists.
Really Simple Discovery (RSD) is an 
XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.
Headquarters
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
RSD is 118 times more popular than Markdown.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
RSD is more popular than Markdown in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
Italy
Japan
France
Australia
Netherlands
Brazil
Awards
- 🔥 20th most popular in China in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 26th most popular in Norway in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 27th most popular in Switzerland in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 29th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in El Salvador in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Libya in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Spain in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Italy in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
RSD is more popular than Markdown in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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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.