🆚 RSD vs. Trace Context
- 📈 RSD is much more popular than Trace Context.
- 🌎 RSD is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Trace Context is more popular in the British Virgin Islands.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
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.
The Trace Context specification defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.
Headquarters
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 in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Trace Context is more popular in the British Virgin Islands.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
Italy
France
Japan
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.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Ecuador in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Belgium in the Standards category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in the United States in the Standards category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in Australia 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.
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JSON🗃️ 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.