🆚 RSD vs. Webmention
- 📈 RSD is much more popular than Webmention.
- 🌍 RSD is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
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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.
Webmention is a simple protocol to notify any URL when a website links to it, and for web pages to request notifications when somebody links to them.
Headquarters
Wesley Hills, New York, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
RSD is 660 times more popular than Webmention.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
RSD is more popular than Webmention in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Spain
France
Japan
Italy
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 Brazil in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 35th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 37th most popular in Australia in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 37th most popular in Sweden in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 39th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 39th most popular in Canada in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
RSD is more popular than Webmention 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.
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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 3,532,692 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.