🆚 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, Bermuda, and Curacao.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
PingbackType
Standard
Standard
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 provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
XFN is 1.4 times more popular than Pingback.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
XFN is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Pingback is more popular in Japan, Bermuda, and Curacao.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
Italy
France
Netherlands
Japan
Australia
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 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.
XFN is more popular among sites focused on business, blogs and wiki, and marketing and merchandising, while Pingback is more commonly used on sports, restaurants, and games sites.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Webmention🗃️ 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.