Really Simple Discovery

Category - Miscellaneous

Really Simple Discovery (RSD) is an XML format and a publishing convention for making services exposed by a blog, or other web software, discoverable by client software.

Technology usage statistics

Websites using RSD 1,790,578 websites
Most popular in the country United States of America
Market position in Miscellaneous #1
Market share in Miscellaneous 28.37%

Technology adoption

Recent changes in RSD usage. (See RSD Usage Changes report)
Websites that added RSD +30,727
Websites that dropped RSD -32,031

Distribution by websites popularity

Really Simple Discovery detection in the top websites by popularity
Top 10k sites 1,311 websites
Top 100k sites 19,054 websites
Top 1m sites 194,602 websites

Websites utilizing Really Simple Discovery

Top websites that use RSD

Domain Country Rank Contacts
en.wikipedia.org United States of America 16
creativecommons.org United States of America 34
commons.wikimedia.org United States of America 124
www.prweb.com United States of America 160
fr.wikipedia.org United States of America 172
de.wikipedia.org United States of America 211
See full domain list

Market Share

RSD market share within the Miscellaneous category

Geographical Distribution

Technology usage distribution by websites across the globe.






Alternative Names

  • RSD

Really Simple Discovery often used together with


Category - CMS.
WordPress is used together with RSD on 2,798,530 domains. Total 2,584,299 domains found using WordPress
Category - Programming Languages.
PHP is used together with RSD on 2,023,496 domains. Total 3,751,955 domains found using PHP
Category - Document Encoding.
UTF-8 is used together with RSD on 1,796,958 domains. Total 8,286,074 domains found using UTF-8
Category - Document Standards.
JavaScript is used together with RSD on 1,781,921 domains. Total 6,343,077 domains found using JavaScript
Category - Databases.
MySQL is used together with RSD on 1,767,143 domains. Total 2,700,279 domains found using MySQL
Category - JavaScript Libraries.
jQuery is used together with RSD on 1,739,136 domains. Total 3,817,076 domains found using jQuery


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