🆚 Microdata vs. Microformats2
- 📈 Microdata is much more popular than Microformats2.
- 🌎 Microdata is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Microformats2 is more popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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.
Microformats2 is the second generation of the 
Microformats specification designed to make publishing and parsing structured data in HTML easier for both authors and developers.
It introduces a simplified class naming system, supports formats including h-card, h-entry, h-event, and h-product, provides built-in 
JSON parsing models, and improves backward compatibility and extensibility.
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.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Japan in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Vietnam in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Canada 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 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.