🆚 Trace Context vs. XFN
- 📈 XFN is much more popular than Trace Context.
- 🌎 XFN 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
Trace Context
XFNType
Standard
Standard
About
The Trace Context specification defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.
XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an 
HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
XFN is 21 times more popular than Trace Context.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
XFN 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
France
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
Brazil
India
Awards
- ⭐ 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.
- ⭐ 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 Trace Context in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
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.