🆚 Microformats vs. Twitter Cards
- 📈 Twitter Cards is much more popular than Microformats.
- 🌍 Twitter Cards is more popular in all countries.
MicroformatsType
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.
Twitter Cards are a metadata format used by 
X, originally Twitter, that enables links in posts to display rich previews with images, videos, and interactive media to increase engagement and traffic.
They are defined via specialized meta tags embedded in web pages, support multiple card types, and enable previews such as articles with images and descriptions, app install prompts, and embedded audio or video players with playback controls.
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 Spain in the Semantic Markup category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Rwanda in the Semantic Markup category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Semantic Markup category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Semantic Markup category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Semantic Markup category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Japan 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
JSON-LD
oEmbed
Dublin Core🗃️ 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 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.