🆚 oEmbed vs. XFN
- 📈 oEmbed is noticeably more popular than XFN.
- 🌎 oEmbed is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 XFN is more popular in Russia, China, and Taiwan.
oEmbed
XFNType
About
oEmbed is an open format that allows websites to embed representations of external URLs such as videos, images, and posts from third-party services.
It defines a simple API that returns structured metadata in 
JSON or 
XML for generating content previews, and supports multiple content types including video, photo, link, and rich embeds.
XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an 
HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.
It defines a set of standardized link relationship values such as friend, colleague, spouse, and acquaintance through the HTML "rel" attribute, and may be used by blogs, social networks, and personal websites to describe social connections in a machine-readable format.
Headquarters
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 Libya in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Guinea in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Switzerland in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in South Africa in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Finland in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Algeria in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Tajikistan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Zambia in the Standards 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.
🗃️ 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 3,906,822 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.