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 1,820,979 websites
Most popular in the country United States of America
Market position in Miscellaneous #1
Market share in Miscellaneous 35.26%

Technology adoption

Recent changes in RSD usage. (See RSD Usage Changes report)
Websites that added RSD +78,147
Websites that dropped RSD -64,242

Distribution by websites popularity

Really Simple Discovery detection in the top websites by popularity
Top 10k sites 1,411 websites
Top 100k sites 19,417 websites
Top 1m sites 198,914 websites

Websites utilizing Really Simple Discovery

Top websites that use RSD

Domain Country Rank Contacts
en.wikipedia.org United States of America 16
wordpress.com United States of America 32
creativecommons.org United States of America 34
techcrunch.com United States of America 67
commons.wikimedia.org United States of America 124
www.prweb.com United States of America 160
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 3,689,350 domains. Total 2,666,091 domains found using WordPress
Category - Programming Languages.
PHP is used together with RSD on 2,373,558 domains. Total 4,097,300 domains found using PHP
Category - JavaScript Libraries.
jQuery is used together with RSD on 2,173,634 domains. Total 4,244,363 domains found using jQuery
Category - Document Standards.
JavaScript is used together with RSD on 1,833,431 domains. Total 6,905,876 domains found using JavaScript
Category - Document Encoding.
UTF-8 is used together with RSD on 1,806,518 domains. Total 8,492,902 domains found using UTF-8
Category - Databases.
MySQL is used together with RSD on 1,788,593 domains. Total 2,838,917 domains found using MySQL


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AdBlock: Total 210,419 domains found using AdBlock
Amazon S3: Total 69,445 domains found using Amazon S3
Auth0: Total 167 domains found using Auth0
Auth0 Lock: Total 129 domains found using Auth0 Lock
Axios: Total 3,199 domains found using Axios
Babel: Total 200 domains found using Babel
Basic ECC: Total 97 domains found using Basic ECC
Cacti: Total 14 domains found using Cacti
cgit: Total 115 domains found using cgit
Clipboard.js: Total 23,627 domains found using Clipboard.js