🆚 Pingback vs. RSD
- 📈 RSD is twice as popular as Pingback.
- 🌎 RSD is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Pingback is more popular in Pitcairn.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
PingbackType
Standard
Standard
About
Pingback is a method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.
Really Simple Discovery (RSD) is an 
XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
RSD is 2.2 times more popular than Pingback.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
RSD is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Pingback is more popular in Pitcairn.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
Japan
Italy
France
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
Awards
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Vietnam in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Macedonia in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in El Salvador in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Libya in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Spain in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Italy in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
RSD is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while Pingback is more commonly used on real estate and restaurants sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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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.