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RSS Usage Statistics

Websites running RSS

RSS Usage Statistics Percent of websites running RSS

A family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts.

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This chart represents RSS penetration over a historical time period on a large selection of website homepages queried by BuiltWith.

The usage trends are updated twice a month with the last calculation occuring on February 28 2010.

For more information about RSS visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)

Feeds Overview Syndication Techniques

Feeds provide syndication techniques for web sites. These feeds provide structured access to content which in turn allows computer applications to understand this information. This has allowed the development of RSS Readers and aggregation software. Feedburner, which is listed here but is not a syndication technique, provides access to RSS feeds but provides a layer of reporting and features. Feedburner was acquired by Google in May 2005.

RSS is the most popular syndication technique, spearheaded by its development out of Netscape in the late 90ies. RSS goes hand in hand with Blog and piggy backed off its popularity to show the strong up take and usage it receives today.

Feeds Distribution Distribution of the top web technologies.
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Distribution is calculated from a cross section of website domains provided by URLs entered at BuiltWith.com and the Quantcast Top Million. Last calculated on February 28 2010

Feeds Usage Proportion of sites found using these technologies.
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Analytics penetration is based on what BuiltWith can find and is typically based on popular 3rd party tools. Last calculated on February 28 2010.

Top Sites using RSS
scribd.com
fancast.com
vzw.com
tinypic.com
photobucket.com
pogo.com
wordpress.com
yelp.com
cnn.com
wikia.com
nba.com
imdb.com
yahoo.com
webmd.com
msn.com
cbssports.com
time.com
youtube.com
weather.com
ca.gov
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We know of an estimated 214,328+ websites that are using RSS.

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+ This is an estimated figure based on sites within the top ten thousand we found using this technology.

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Top Providers Syndication Techniques
RSS19.62%
FeedBurner3.99%
Really Simple Discovery3.02%
Atom2.44%
Live Writer Support2.33%
Pingback Support2.11%
Dublin Core1.34%
Google AJAX Feed API 0.03%
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Hot Providers Biggest Movers in Feeds
RSS+1.1%
Live Writer Support+0.58%
Really Simple Discovery+0.49%
Atom+0.47%
Pingback Support+0.33%
Dublin Core+0.11%
FeedBurner-0.78%