🆚 Markdown vs. YAML

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
Markdown
YAML

Type

Standard
Standard

About

Markdown is a markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents.

YAML is a data serialization language designed to be human friendly and work well with modern programming languages for common everyday tasks.

Headquarters

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Website

daringfireball.net #210,183
yaml.org #1,123,508

Categories

Standards › Rank #31
Standards › Rank #14

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

YAML is 12 times more popular than Markdown.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

YAML is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Markdown is more popular in Iran, Saint Helena, and Liechtenstein.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
India
Netherlands
Japan
Canada
France
Italy

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

YAML is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty, while Markdown is more commonly used on technical information sites.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Business
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Sports
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#543
#1,304
#2,266
#2,326
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Name
Rank
#49
#70
#76
#134
#340
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