🆚 RSD vs. Trace Context
- 📈 RSD is much more popular than Trace Context.
- 🌍 RSD is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
RSDType
Standard
Standard
About
Really Simple Discovery (RSD) is an 
XML format that allows client software to discover services provided by web publishing systems.
It helps clients find endpoints for reading, editing, and interacting with website content through APIs.
The Trace Context specification defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.
Headquarters
Wesley Hills, New York, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
RSD is 33 times more popular than Trace Context.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
RSD is more popular than Trace Context in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Japan
Spain
Italy
France
Netherlands
Australia
Brazil
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Libya in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Bulgaria in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Lithuania in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Macedonia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Ecuador in the Standards category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in the Netherlands in the Standards category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Indonesia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Denmark in the Standards category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
RSD is more popular than Trace Context in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
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.
🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.