🆚 Webmention vs. XFN
- 📈 XFN is much more popular than Webmention.
- 🌍 XFN is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Webmention
XFNType
Standard
Standard
About
Webmention is a simple protocol to notify any URL when a website links to it, and for web pages to request notifications when somebody links to them.
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 417 times more popular than Webmention.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
XFN is more popular than Webmention in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
Brazil
India
Awards
- ⬆️ 35th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 37th most popular in Australia in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 37th most popular in Sweden in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 38th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 39th most popular in Canada 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 Webmention 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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ActivityPub🗃️ 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.