🆚 Microformats vs. SearchAction
- 📈 SearchAction is much more popular than Microformats.
- 🌍 SearchAction is more popular in all countries.
Microformats
SearchActionType
About
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.
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
Categories
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
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United States in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Germany in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Japan in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in France 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 the United Kingdom in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in France in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in France 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.
Open Graph
Twitter Cards
JSON-LD
oEmbed
OpenSearch
W3C company profile🗃️ 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 3,603,958 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.