🆚 OpenSearch vs. XFN

📈 XFN is much more popular than OpenSearch.
🌎 XFN is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 OpenSearch is more popular in Nauru.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

OpenSearch

XFN

Type

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.

XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.

It defines a set of standardized link relationship values such as friend, colleague, spouse, and acquaintance through the HTML "rel" attribute, and may be used by blogs, social networks, and personal websites to describe social connections in a machine-readable format.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

United States

Website

GitHub #13

gmpg.org/xfn/ #2,471,084

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

XFN is 18 times more popular than OpenSearch.

Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

XFN is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while OpenSearch is more popular in Nauru.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

France

Spain

Italy

Netherlands

Australia

Brazil

India

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.

⭐ 6th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Sierra Leone in the Standards category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Nigeria in the Standards category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Kenya in the Standards category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

XFN is more popular than OpenSearch in all market segments.

Business

Blogs/Wiki

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Internet Services

Entertainment

Travel

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#12

#13

#15

#22

Name

Rank

#140

#304

#390

#420

#556