🆚 Pingback vs. RelMeAuth
Pingback is much more popular than RelMeAuth.- Pingback is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
RelMeAuth is more popular in Saint Helena.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Standard
Standard
About
Pingback is an 
XML-RPC-based protocol that allows websites to notify each other when one links to another.
A website can advertise its Pingback endpoint through an 
HTML link element or the X-Pingback HTTP header, allowing compatible blogging platforms and clients to send notifications automatically.
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.
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Pingback is 40 times more popular than RelMeAuth.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Pingback is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while RelMeAuth is more popular in Saint Helena.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Spain
Italy
France
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
Awards
- 🔥 11st most popular in Vietnam in the Standards category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Macedonia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Afghanistan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 27th most popular in Bulgaria in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 28th most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 28th most popular in Ireland in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 29th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Pingback is more popular than RelMeAuth in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Internet Services
Travel
Health
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 4,046,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.