🆚 Microdata vs. Microformats
- Microdata is five times more popular than Microformats.
- Microdata is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Microformats is more popular in Chad.
Type
About
Microdata is an 
HTML specification used to embed structured metadata within web page content by annotating elements with machine-readable attributes.
It uses attributes such as itemscope, itemtype, and itemprop to define entities and their properties directly in markup, supports vocabularies such as Schema.org, and is one of the structured data formats supported by Google alongside 
JSON-LD and 
RDFa.
Microformats (μF) are a set of standardized HTML class names and attributes used to embed descriptive metadata within existing page content for entities such as people, events, reviews, and blog posts.
The original Microformats v1 specification defined formats such as hCard for people and organizations, hCalendar for events, hReview for reviews, hRecipe for recipes, and hProduct for commerce data, using conventional HTML class attributes.
Headquarters
html.spec.whatwg.orgCategories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Semantic Markup category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Semantic Markup category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Burkina Faso in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Japan in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Spain in the Semantic Markup category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 4,046,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.