🆚 RSD vs. XFN

📈 RSD is noticeably more popular than XFN.
🌎 RSD is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 XFN is more popular in DPR Korea.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

RSD

XFN

Type

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.

XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.

It defines a set of standardized link relationship values such as friend, colleague, spouse, and acquaintance through the HTML "rel" attribute, and may be used by blogs, social networks, and personal websites to describe social connections in a machine-readable format.

Headquarters

Wesley Hills, New York, United States

United States

Website

GitHub #13

gmpg.org/xfn/ #2,471,084

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

RSD is 1.6 times more popular than XFN.

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 XFN is more popular in DPR Korea.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

France

Spain

Italy

Japan

Netherlands

Australia

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 Brazil in the Standards category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.

⭐ 6th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Nigeria in the Standards category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Kenya in the Standards category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Standards category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

RSD is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while XFN is more commonly used on sports, real estate, and religion and ideology sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#83

#310

#447

#556

Name

Rank

#140

#304

#420

#556

#590