🆚 Pingback vs. Sitemap
- 📈 Pingback is much more popular than Sitemap.
- 🌍 Pingback is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Pingback
SitemapType
Standard
Standard
About
Pingback is a method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.
A sitemap is a file in 
XML format that allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling.
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Pingback is 35 times more popular than Sitemap.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Pingback is more popular than Sitemap in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Spain
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.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Slovenia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Azerbaijan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Taiwan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Pingback is more popular than Sitemap in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Internet Services
Travel
Health
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Name
Rank
#94
#836
#903
#956
#965
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Technologies with similar characteristics.
OpenSearch🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.