🆚 XFN vs. XHTML
- 📈 XFN is four 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 Hong Kong.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
XFN
XHTMLType
Standard
Standard
About
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 4 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 Hong Kong.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Spain
Japan
Netherlands
Australia
India
Awards
- ⭐ 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.
- 🥉 Third most popular in China in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Brunei Darussalam in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Hong Kong in the Standards category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the British Virgin Islands 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.
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CSS🗃️ 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.