🆚 XFN vs. XHTML
- 📈 XFN is five times more popular than XHTML.
- 🌎 XFN is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 XHTML is more popular in China, Korea, and the British Virgin Islands.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
XFN
XHTMLType
Standard
Standard
About
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
United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
XFN is 5 times more popular than XHTML.
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 XHTML is more popular in China, Korea, and the British Virgin Islands.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
Australia
Brazil
Awards
- ⭐ 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.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Russia in the Standards category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Hong Kong in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
XFN is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while XHTML is more commonly used on forum, bulletin boards and games sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
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.