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.



We have discovered  12,682,418 live websites   that are using RSD.

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Technology usage statistics

Websites using RSD12,682,418 websites
Most popular in the country United States
Market position in Miscellaneous#3
Market penetration in Miscellaneous31.78%

Technology adoption

Recent changes in RSD usage. (See RSD Usage Changes report)
Websites that added RSD+60,874
Websites that dropped RSD-88,397

Really Simple Discovery usage distribution by website rank

The correlation between utilization of RSD technology and the relative popularity of websites

Geographical Distribution

Technology usage distribution by websites across the globe.



Websites utilizing Really Simple Discovery

Top websites that use RSD
DomainCountryRankContacts
wordpress.org United States4
en.wikipedia.org United States53
vimeo.com United States67
wordpress.com United States68
s-origin.wordpress.com United States76
creativecommons.org United States139
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Alternative Technologies


Open Graph: Total 21,349,862 domains found using Open Graph
RSS: Total 16,387,322 domains found using RSS
HTTP/3: Total 12,601,699 domains found using HTTP/3
HTTP/2: Total 7,030,573 domains found using HTTP/2
pingback: Total 6,876,314 domains found using pingback
animate.css: Total 3,946,222 domains found using animate.css
Gravatar: Total 2,971,326 domains found using Gravatar
PWA: Total 2,500,715 domains found using PWA
webpack: Total 2,395,263 domains found using webpack
P3P: Total 1,908,231 domains found using P3P