🆚 Onion vs. OpenPGP
- 📈 Onion is twice as popular as OpenPGP.
- 🌎 Onion is more popular in the United States, Russia, and the Netherlands.
- 🌍 OpenPGP is more popular in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
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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.
community.torproject.orgPopularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Onion is 2.2 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 the United States, Russia, and the Netherlands, while OpenPGP is more popular in Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
United States
Germany
Russia
Netherlands
United Kingdom
France
Moldova
Sweden
Canada
Finland
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Onion is more popular among sites focused on general news, blogs and wiki, and Internet services, 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
Finance/Banking
Personal Pages
Education/Reference
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 3,823,966 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.