🆚 RSD vs. Sitemap
- 📈 RSD is much more popular than Sitemap.
- 🌍 RSD is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
SitemapType
Standard
Standard
About
Really Simple Discovery (RSD) is an 
XML format that helps client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.
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.
RSD is 78 times more popular than Sitemap.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
RSD is more popular than Sitemap in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
Japan
Italy
France
Australia
Netherlands
Brazil
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in El Salvador in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Libya in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Spain in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Italy 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.
RSD is more popular than Sitemap in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Name
Rank
#94
#836
#903
#956
#965
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- 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.