🆚 oEmbed vs. XRDS
- 📈 oEmbed is much more popular than XRDS.
- 🌍 oEmbed is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.9M+ analyzed websites. About this data
oEmbed
XRDSType
Standard
Standard
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.
OpenIDHeadquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
OEmbed is 654 times more popular than XRDS.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
oEmbed is more popular than XRDS in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Spain
France
Italy
Japan
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
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.
- ⬆️ 33rd most popular in the Czech Republic in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 36th most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 37th most popular in Russia in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 38th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 40th most popular in Canada in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
oEmbed is more popular than XRDS in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Travel
Health
Entertainment
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
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.