🆚 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 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Trace Context

XFN

Type

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 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

Website

w3.org #12,884

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

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 Qatar in the Standards category.
🔥 16th most popular in Australia in the Standards category.
🔥 16th most popular in Belgium 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.

Name

Rank

#75

#86

#120

#132

#139

Name

Rank

#140

#304

#390

#420

#556