🆚 Webmention vs. XFN

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Webmention
XFN

Type

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 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

Categories

Standards › Rank #40
Standards › Rank #10

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

XFN is 412 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

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
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#13,052
#16,292
#16,434
#25,273
#28,290
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Name
Rank
#140
#304
#390
#420
#556
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See also

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