🆚 Multi-language vs. Meta Robots
- 📈 Meta Robots is much more popular than Multi-language.
- 🌎 Meta Robots is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Multi-language is more popular in Saint Barthélemy and Pitcairn.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Other technology
Other technology
About
Multiple languages specified by <link rel="alternate"> with the hreflang attribute.
Robots directives are instructions delivered through the robots meta tag or the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header that control how search engines and web crawlers index, cache, and process web content.
They can prevent pages from appearing in search results, restrict link crawling, limit cached copies and search snippets, control image previews, and are recognized by major search engines including 
Google and Bing.
Headquarters
Fremont, California, United States
Website
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Meta Robots technology is 6 times more popular than Multi-language.
Total websites
Market share
Other
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Meta Robots is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Multi-language is more popular in Saint Barthélemy and Pitcairn.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Japan
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
Canada
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Meta Robots is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and blogs and wiki, while Multi-language is more commonly used on travel and sports sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
General News
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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 3,524,018 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.