🆚 WebAssembly vs. XFN
- 📈 XFN is much more popular than WebAssembly.
- 🌍 XFN is more popular in all countries.
WebAssembly
XFNType
About
WebAssembly (Wasm) is a portable binary instruction format that runs in modern web browsers with near-native performance, enabling frontend coding in languages that were not traditionally used for web interfaces, such as 
C/C++, 
C#, and 
Rust.
It is designed as a low-level compilation target with a compact binary format, fast execution, memory-safe sandboxing, and a stack-based virtual machine. It also integrates with 
JavaScript to access Web APIs and share memory efficiently.
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
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⬆️ 26th most popular in Denmark in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 33rd most popular in Canada in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 33rd most popular in Russia in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 33rd most popular in Brazil in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 33rd most popular in India in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Bhutan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Algeria in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Tajikistan in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Zambia in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Myanmar in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.