🆚 Onion vs. RelMeAuth
- 📈 RelMeAuth is much more popular than Onion.
- 🌎 RelMeAuth is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Onion is more popular in Russia, Moldova, and Bouvet Island.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Standard
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.
RelMeAuth is a proposed open standard for using rel-me links to profiles on OAuth supporting services to authenticate via either those profiles or your own site.
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
RelMeAuth is 20 times more popular than Onion.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
RelMeAuth is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Onion is more popular in Russia, Moldova, and Bouvet Island.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Spain
Canada
Australia
Italy
Russia
Awards
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in Russia in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 43rd most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 44th most popular in France in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 45th most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in France in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Bulgaria in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Chile in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
RelMeAuth is more popular than Onion in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Business
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Technical/Business Forums
Entertainment
Games
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

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