🆚 OpenSearch vs. XML

📈 OpenSearch is three times more popular than XML.
🌎 OpenSearch is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia.
🌍 XML is more popular in Japan, Korea, and Cameroon.

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

OpenSearch

XML

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.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing structured data in a platform-independent way.

It uses a hierarchical tree structure with custom-defined tags, supports schemas such as DTD and XML Schema for validation, enables namespaces to avoid naming conflicts, and is widely used in formats and protocols such as RSS, SOAP, and configuration files.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

GitHub #13

w3.org/XML/ #12,884

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

OpenSearch is 3 times more popular than XML.

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 XML is more popular in Japan, Korea, and Cameroon.

United States

Germany

Japan

Russia

United Kingdom

France

Spain

Italy

Ukraine

Netherlands

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 Japan in the Standards category.
🔥 19th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Standards category.
🔥 19th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
⬆️ 21st most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
⬆️ 21st most popular in Switzerland 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 XML is more commonly used on health sites.

Business

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Entertainment

Public Information

Internet Services

Games

Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#12

#13

#15

#22

Name

Rank

#940

#1,288

gobiernodecanarias.org

#1,453