🆚 Microformats2 vs. SearchAction

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 SearchAction is much more popular than Microformats2.
🌎 SearchAction is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 Microformats2 is more popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Type

Semantic markup technology

About

Microformats are a set of defined HTML classes and attributes created to serve as descriptive metadata about an element, representing commonly published things like people, events, blog posts, reviews, and so on.

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

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

microformats.org #758,817

schema.org/SearchAction #99,288

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

SearchAction semantic markup technology is 367 times more popular than Microformats2.

Total websites

Market share

Semantic Markup

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

SearchAction is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Microformats2 is more popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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