Xing
XING is a German career-oriented social networking platform focused on professional connections across industries mostly in the German-speaking market.
It offers comprehensive user profiles, networking and contact management, searchable job postings with tailored suggestions and recruiting tools, groups and discussion forums, event listings and marketplaces for freelancers, and company pages.
According to our data, Xing ranks 23th among the social media platforms we track.
It has 0.4% of the social media market share and is detected on 0.2% of all websites.
Wikipedia💸 Pricing
Xing is available in both free and paid versions.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Social Media
- Rank: 23
- Market share: 0.4%
- Job Boards
- Rank: 2
- Market share: 1.4%
🏆 Xing Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Job Boards category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Switzerland in the Job Boards category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Austria in the Job Boards category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Austria in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Switzerland in the Social Media category.
⚡ Sites Using Xing
We have data on 8,413 websites that use the Xing social media platform. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Xing is focus.de.
| # | Website | 🔗 | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | focus-online-karriere | #477 | Germany | German | |
| 2 | deutschepostag | #1,451 | Germany | German | |
| 3 | frankfurterallgemeinezeitung | #1,473 | Germany | German | |
| 4 | autoscout24gmbh | #2,169 | Germany | German | |
| 5 |  taboola.com |
taboola | #2,340 | United States | American English |
| 6 | finanzen-netgmbh | #3,189 | Germany | German | |
| 7 | taboola | #3,556 | United States | American English | |
| 8 | bonprix | #4,388 | Germany | German | |
| 9 | 1-1 | #6,031 | Germany | German | |
| 10 | digitecgalaxusag | #7,219 | Switzerland | English | |
| 11 | friedrich-alexander-universitaterlangen-nurnberg | #7,323 | Germany | German | |
| 12 | statistagmbh | #7,831 | Germany | English | |
| 13 | kaufda-bonialinternationalgmbh | #7,841 | Germany | German | |
| 14 | e-breuningergmbh-co | #9,321 | Germany | German | |
| 15 | onag | #11,541 | United States | English | |
| 16 | cornelsenverlag | #11,729 | Germany | German | |
| 17 | barmer | #12,526 | Germany | German | |
| 18 | innogamesgmbh | #12,746 | Germany | English | |
| 19 | deutschegesetzlicheunfallversicherunge-v | #12,750 | Germany | German | |
| 20 | radio-degmbh | #12,977 | Germany | American English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Xing:
- are located in Germany
- have content in German
- use the .de domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using Xing are from Germany and Switzerland.
- Germany 85.5%
- Switzerland 5.1%
- Austria 4.6%
- United States 0.8%
- France 0.5%
- United Kingdom 0.5%
- Netherlands 0.5%
- Poland 0.3%
- Spain 0.3%
- Other 1.9%
Most Xing users speak German or English.
- German 82.1%
- English 15.6%
- French 0.4%
- Polish 0.3%
- Spanish 0.3%
- Dutch 0.3%
- Italian 0.2%
- Portuguese 0.1%
- Chinese 0.1%
- Other 0.6%
The Xing social media platform is especially popular on .de and .com top-level domains.
- .de 60%
- .com 23.1%
- .ch 3.9%
- .at 2.8%
- .eu 1.6%
- .net 1.6%
- .org 0.6%
- .io 0.4%
- .ag 0.3%
- Other 5.7%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Xing include business, finance and banking, and software and hardware.
- Business 39.5%
- Finance/Banking 8.4%
- Software/Hardware 8.1%
- Marketing/Merchandising 7.3%
- Internet Services 7.2%
- Online Shopping 4.7%
- Education/Reference 4.1%
- Real Estate 3.7%
- Health 3.4%
- Other 13.6%
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Where is Xing's headquarters?
Xing is located in Hamburg, Germany.
Can I use Xing for free?
Yes, there is a free version with limited functionality.
How much does it cost per month?
Xing is priced from €9.95 per month for the Premium plan.
Which country uses Xing the most?
The majority of Xing users are from Germany.
Who uses Xing?
How does Xing stack up against its competitors?
Xing is a moderately popular social media platform, ranking ahead of 64 other social media platforms we track.
🗃️ 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.