🆚 Pingback vs. Trace Context
- 📈 Pingback is much more popular than Trace Context.
- 🌎 Pingback is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Trace Context is more popular in the British Virgin Islands.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
PingbackType
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.
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 14 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, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Trace Context is more popular in the British Virgin Islands.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Japan
Spain
Italy
France
Netherlands
Australia
Canada
Awards
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Vietnam in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Macedonia in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Afghanistan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Ecuador in the Standards category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in the Netherlands in the Standards category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Indonesia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Denmark in the Standards category.
- 🔥 18th 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 Trace Context in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Internet Services
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
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 3,823,966 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.