🆚 OpenSearch vs. RelMeAuth
- 📈 OpenSearch is three times more popular than RelMeAuth.
- 🌎 OpenSearch is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia.
- 🌍 RelMeAuth is more popular in Chile, Isle of Man, and Saint Helena.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
OpenSearchType
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.
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.
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
OpenSearch is 3 times more popular than RelMeAuth.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
OpenSearch is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia, while RelMeAuth is more popular in Chile, Isle of Man, and Saint Helena.
United States
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Netherlands
Italy
Ukraine
Poland
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.
- ⬆️ 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.
OpenSearch is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, business, and online shopping, while RelMeAuth is more commonly used on technical, business forums, personal pages, and fashion and beauty sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
Public Information
Games
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
SearchAction
XFN
Sitemap
OAuth
OpenID
Amazon company profile🗃️ 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.