🆚 Open Graph vs. Pingback

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Semantic markup technology
Standard

About

The Open Graph protocol is a web metadata standard that defines how webpages are described as structured objects for use in social graphs and enables their consistent representation.

It specifies a set of HTML meta properties that start with "og:" (such as og:title, og:type, og:image, and og:description) to add semantic meaning to a page's content and control how that content should be represented.

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Pingback is a method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.

Headquarters

Menlo Park, California, United States

Website

Categories

Semantic Markup › Rank #2
Standards › Rank #3
Standards › Rank #12

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Open Graph semantic markup technology is 4 times more popular than Pingback.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Open Graph is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Pingback is more popular in Bhutan.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
France
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Open Graph is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and blogs and wiki, while Pingback is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, travel, and sports sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
General News
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
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Name
Rank
vailonxx.co
#832
hdp**ncomics.com
#857
xvideo.vlog.br
#967
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