🆚 Pingback vs. Webmention

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
Pingback
Webmention

Type

Standard
Standard

About

Pingback is a method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.

Webmention is a simple protocol to notify any URL when a website links to it, and for web pages to request notifications when somebody links to them.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

hixie.ch #13,617
w3.org #12,884

Categories

Standards › Rank #12
Standards › Rank #39

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Pingback is 308 times more popular than Webmention.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Pingback is more popular than Webmention in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Spain
Italy
France
Australia
Netherlands
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Pingback is more popular than Webmention in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Internet Services
Travel
Health
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
vailonxx.co
#832
#835
hdp**ncomics.com
#857
#952
xvideo.vlog.br
#967
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Name
Rank
#13,052
#16,292
#16,434
#25,273
#28,290
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