🆚 RDF vs. XFN

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
RDF
XFN

Type

Standard
Standard

About

Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a W3C standard model to describe and exchange graph data on the web.

XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

w3.org/RDF/ #12,884
gmpg.org/xfn/ #2,471,084

Categories

Standards › Rank #33
Standards › Rank #10

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

XFN is 135 times more popular than RDF.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

XFN is more popular than RDF in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
Brazil
India

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

XFN is more popular than RDF in all market segments.
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.

Name
Rank
imagefap.com
#471
s*xalarab.com
#881
mlookalp**no.com
#932
#1,601
#1,767
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Name
Rank
#140
#304
#390
#420
#556
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