🆚 Microdata vs. SearchAction
- 📈 SearchAction is noticeably more popular than Microdata.
- 🌎 SearchAction is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Microdata is more popular in Russia, Korea, and China.
SearchActionType
About
Microdata is an 
HTML specification that is used to nest metadata within a document, in parallel with the existing content.
SearchAction is a structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.
Before November 2024, it was used by Google to enable the "Sitelinks Search Box" feature, which displayed a search bar for a website directly within the search results snippet. However, since Google deprecated this feature, there is no evidence that other search engines or apps currently support it.
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
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Russia in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Korea in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Belarus in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Cape Verde in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in China in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Vietnam in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Ukraine in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in France in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in France in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in India 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.
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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.