Webmention
W3C, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesWebmention 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.
According to our data, Webmention ranks 42th among the standards we track.
It is detected on 0.05% of all websites.
Wikipedia📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Standards
- Rank: 42
- Market share: 0.06%
🏆 Webmention Awards
- ⬆️ 39th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 42nd most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 42nd most popular in France in the Standards category.
⚡ Sites Using Webmention
We have data on 2,117 websites that use Webmention. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Webmention is uploadvr.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #17,066 | English | ||
| 2 | #18,209 | English | ||
| 3 | #18,886 | English | ||
| 4 | #21,685 | India | English | |
| 5 | #22,231 | English | ||
| 6 | #27,107 | United States | English | |
| 7 | #42,472 | English | ||
| 8 | #49,172 | Germany | German | |
| 9 | English | |||
| 10 | #53,254 | India | English | |
| 11 | #57,786 | English | ||
| 12 | #58,115 | English | ||
| 13 | #65,227 | English | ||
| 14 | #69,467 | English | ||
| 15 | #69,904 | English | ||
| 16 | #69,943 | English | ||
| 17 | #70,928 | Croatia | Croatian | |
| 18 | #76,193 | China | Chinese | |
| 19 | #85,216 | English | ||
| 20 | #86,025 | India | English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Webmention:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Blogs/Wiki category.
Most of the sites using Webmention are from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- United States 22%
- United Kingdom 12.7%
- Germany 12.3%
- France 5.7%
- Canada 3.1%
- Brazil 3%
- Australia 2.7%
- Netherlands 2.7%
- India 2.3%
- Other 33.5%
Most Webmention users speak English or German.
- English 79.7%
- German 4.4%
- French 2.8%
- Spanish 2.5%
- Portuguese 1.9%
- Russian 1.1%
- Chinese 0.9%
- Dutch 0.7%
- Swedish 0.7%
- Other 5.3%
Webmention is especially popular on .com and .org top-level domains.
- .com 48.9%
- .org 6.6%
- .net 4.2%
- .io 3.7%
- .de 3.4%
- .me 2%
- .co 1.5%
- .co.uk 1.5%
- .dev 1.4%
- Other 26.8%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Webmention include blogs and wiki, business, and technical, business forums.
- Blogs/Wiki 27%
- Business 9.2%
- Technical/Business Forums 9.2%
- Internet Services 6.7%
- General News 6%
- Entertainment 5.1%
- Games 4.1%
- Marketing/Merchandising 3%
- Personal Pages 3%
- Other 26.7%
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💬 Frequently Asked Questions
What is the company behind Webmention?
Webmention is owned by World Wide Web Consortium, Inc., headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Which country uses Webmention the most?
The majority of Webmention users are from the United States.
Who uses Webmention?
According to our data, Webmention is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as uploadvr.com,
sfist.com, and
404media.co.
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🗃️ 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 4,046,772 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.