🆚 OpenSearch vs. XHTML
- 📈 XHTML is four times more popular than OpenSearch.
- 🌎 XHTML is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany.
- 🌍 OpenSearch is more popular in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ 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.
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Seattle, Washington, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
XHTML is 4 times more popular than OpenSearch.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
XHTML is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany, while OpenSearch is more popular in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan.
United States
Japan
Germany
China
Russia
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Spain
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.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Russia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Ukraine in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in China in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Hong Kong in the Standards category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Russia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Taiwan in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
XHTML is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while OpenSearch is more commonly used on travel sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Public Information
Games
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
SearchAction
XFN
Sitemap
CSS
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 3,603,958 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.