🆚 Pingback vs. Trace Context
- 📈 Pingback is much more popular than Trace Context.
- 🌎 Pingback is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Trace Context is more popular in the British Virgin Islands.
Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Pingback
Trace ContextType
Standard
Standard
About
Pingback is a method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.
The Trace Context specification defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Pingback is 15 times more popular than Trace Context.
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 Trace Context is more popular in the British Virgin Islands.
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.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Ecuador in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Belgium in the Standards category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in Australia in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Pingback is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while Trace Context is more commonly used on fashion and beauty sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Internet Services
Travel
Health
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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JSON🗃️ 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 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.