🆚 OpenPGP vs. Webmention
- 📈 Webmention is much more popular than OpenPGP.
- 🌍 Webmention is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ OpenPGP is particularly popular in Germany.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
WebmentionType
Standard
Standard
About
OpenPGP is a non-proprietary protocol for encrypting email using public key cryptography.
Webmention is a simple protocol to notify any URL when a website links to it, and for web pages to request notifications when somebody links to them.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Webmention is 8 times more popular than OpenPGP.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Webmention is more popular than OpenPGP in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Canada
Sweden
Australia
Spain
India
Awards
- ⬆️ 42nd most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 49th most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 35th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 37th most popular in Australia in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 37th most popular in Sweden in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 38th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 39th most popular in Canada in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Webmention is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, technical, business forums, and business, while OpenPGP is more commonly used on software and hardware sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Technical/Business Forums
Business
Internet Services
General News
Personal Pages
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
Games
Education/Reference
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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ActivityPub🗃️ 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.