🆚 Pingback vs. XFN
- 📈 XFN is noticeably more popular than Pingback.
- 🌎 XFN is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Pingback is more popular in Japan, Guinea, and Curacao.
PingbackType
About
Pingback is a method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.
XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an 
HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.
It defines a set of standardized link relationship values such as friend, colleague, spouse, and acquaintance through the HTML "rel" attribute, and may be used by blogs, social networks, and personal websites to describe social connections in a machine-readable format.
Headquarters
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
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 Bhutan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Sierra Leone in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Nigeria in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Kenya in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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RDF🗃️ 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 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.