🆚 RelMeAuth vs. Sitemap
- 📈 Sitemap is slightly more popular than RelMeAuth.
- 🌍 Sitemap is more popular in Japan, the Netherlands, and Australia.
- 🌎 RelMeAuth is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
SitemapType
Standard
Standard
About
RelMeAuth is a proposed open standard for using rel-me links to profiles on OAuth supporting services to authenticate via either those profiles or your own site.
A sitemap is a file in 
XML format that allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling.
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Sitemap is 1.2 times more popular than RelMeAuth.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Sitemap is more popular in Japan, the Netherlands, and Australia, while RelMeAuth is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
France
Netherlands
Australia
Canada
Spain
Italy
Awards
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in France in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Bulgaria in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Chile in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Slovenia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Azerbaijan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Taiwan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Sitemap is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and Internet services, while RelMeAuth is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, online shopping, and software and hardware sites.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Sports
Technical/Business Forums
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Name
Rank
#94
#836
#903
#956
#965
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OpenSearch🗃️ 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.