🆚 Open Graph vs. XFN
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Open Graph is twice as popular as XFN.
- 🌎 Open Graph is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 XFN is more popular in Bhutan, Malawi, and Lesotho.
Open Graph
XFNType
Semantic markup technology
Standard
About
The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. For instance, this is used on Facebook to allow any web page to have the same functionality as any other object on Facebook.
XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California, United States
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Open Graph semantic markup technology is 2.4 times more popular than XFN.
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 XFN is more popular in Bhutan, Malawi, and Lesotho.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
France
Italy
Netherlands
Spain
Australia
Canada
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Semantic Markup category.
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Semantic Markup category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Semantic Markup category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Semantic Markup category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Faroe Islands in the Semantic Markup category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Samoa in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Malawi in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Open Graph is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while XFN is more commonly used on real estate, recreation and hobbies, and art, culture and heritage sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Travel
Health
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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