🆚 Text vs. XML

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
Text
XML

Type

Standard
Standard

About

The plain text document format.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

w3.org #12,884
w3.org/XML/ #12,884

Categories

Standards › Rank #27
Standards › Rank #28

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Text is 1.2 times more popular than XML.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Text is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, while XML is more popular in Japan, Germany, and the Czech Republic.
Japan
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Italy
France
Russia
Czech Republic
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Text is more popular among sites focused on Internet services, marketing and merchandising, and entertainment, while XML is more commonly used on business, education and reference, and online shopping sites.
Business
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Content Server
Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#64
#899
#1,076
#2,746
#3,641
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Name
Rank
#940
#1,010
#1,288
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