🆚 OpenSearch vs. Sitemap
- 📈 OpenSearch is three times more popular than Sitemap.
- 🌎 OpenSearch is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia.
- 🌍 Sitemap is more popular in Japan, India, and Taiwan.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
OpenSearch
SitemapType
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.
A sitemap is a file in XML format that allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling.
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
OpenSearch is 2.6 times more popular than Sitemap.
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 Sitemap is more popular in Japan, India, and Taiwan.
United States
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Italy
Poland
Ukraine
Spain
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.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Slovenia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Azerbaijan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Taiwan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Iran 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 business, blogs and wiki, and education and reference, while Sitemap is more commonly used on sports, travel, and health sites.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Entertainment
Public Information
General News
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Name
Rank
#94
#836
#903
#956
#965
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- 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.