🆚 Text vs. XFN
- 📈 XFN is much more popular than Text.
- 🌍 XFN is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Text
XFNType
Standard
Standard
About
The plain text document format.
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
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
XFN is 53 times more popular than Text.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
XFN is more popular than Text in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
Brazil
India
Awards
- 🔥 18th most popular in China in the Standards category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Belgium in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Hong Kong in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Sierra Leone 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.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
XFN is more popular than Text in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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RSD🗃️ 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 3,532,617 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.