🆚 OpenSearch vs. Pingback
- 📈 Pingback is much more popular than OpenSearch.
- 🌎 Pingback is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 OpenSearch is more popular in Cape Verde, Dominica, and Nauru.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Standard
Standard
About
OpenSearch is a specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.
It is implemented as a linked XML file and was originally developed by Amazon to make it easier for other applications to integrate their search services.
Pingback is a method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Pingback is 14 times more popular than OpenSearch.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Pingback is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while OpenSearch is more popular in Cape Verde, Dominica, and Nauru.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
Japan
Italy
France
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
Awards
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Kazakhstan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Azerbaijan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Uzbekistan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in the Dominican Republic in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Tajikistan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Vietnam in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Macedonia in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Pingback is more popular than OpenSearch in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Internet Services
Travel
General News
Health
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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