🆚 Onion vs. OpenPGP

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Onion is three times more popular than OpenPGP.
🌎 Onion is more popular in Russia, the United States, and the Netherlands.
🌍 OpenPGP is more popular in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan.

Type

Standard

About

Onion sites are websites on the dark web that use the .onion top-level domain and are only accessible through online routing through Tor.

OpenPGP is a non-proprietary protocol for encrypting email using public key cryptography.

Website

community.torproject.org

openpgp.org #312,106

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Onion is 2.7 times more popular than OpenPGP.

Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Onion is more popular in Russia, the United States, and the Netherlands, while OpenPGP is more popular in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan.

Russia

United States

Germany

Netherlands

France

United Kingdom

Sweden

Finland

Moldova

Japan

Awards

⬆️ 32nd most popular in Russia in the Standards category.
⬆️ 43rd most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
⬆️ 44th most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
⬆️ 44th most popular in France in the Standards category.

⬆️ 42nd most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
⬆️ 49th most popular in the United States in the Standards category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Onion is more popular among sites focused on general news, Internet services, and politics and opinion, while OpenPGP is more commonly used on software and hardware, and personal pages sites.

General News

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Software/Hardware

Politics/Opinion

Business

Personal Pages

Finance/Banking

Education/Reference

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO