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Really Simple Discovery

14,133,779

companies run it, 25.9% of 54,527,857 in the index. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Hosts: 28,653,556 live hosts run it, of 191,809,695 hosts in the index, 14.9%. A host is a website, not a company. This is a web standard: it is present on the host and does not count towards a stack.

Companies by month

Companies, monthly, on the fixed panel of sites crawled since 2020of 54,527,857 in the indexlanding 12 Sept 2026

14,133,666 at Sept 26; 14,037,031 twelve months earlier, +96,635, +0.7% on the fixed panel; the series starts January 2021 because the panel is anchored at 31 Dec 2020

The 69 numbers in this chart
MonthCompaniesObserved on the panel
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2024-0813,0021,903
2024-09249,41836,508
2024-101,073,310157,104
2024-112,196,147321,458
2024-123,309,344484,400
2025-014,543,956665,115
2025-025,744,386840,826
2025-036,944,8151,016,537
2025-048,169,0881,195,738
2025-059,366,8651,371,061
2025-0610,589,0961,549,964
2025-0711,799,4381,727,126
2025-0813,007,8001,903,998
2025-0914,037,0312,054,650
2025-1014,841,5362,172,408
2025-1115,058,5662,204,176
2025-1214,976,6492,192,185
2026-0114,909,8422,182,407
2026-0214,853,4122,174,147
2026-0314,873,8502,177,138
2026-0414,812,8722,168,213
2026-0514,712,6292,153,540
2026-0614,626,7822,140,974
2026-0714,486,5362,120,446
2026-0814,330,5472,097,613
2026-0914,133,6662,068,795

Both denominators, and a third

Shares of the same 14,133,779each row a different wholelanding 12 Sept 2026

Denominator
Companies
Share
companies in the index
54,527,857
25.9%
companies running anything in Web Standards and Capabilities
51,014,812
27.7%
companies running anything in Syndication and discovery formats
17,329,893
81.6%

Three wholes, three shares of one count: a share travels with its whole, never alone. Against the last of them, Really Simple Discovery is rank 2 of 3 technologies in Syndication and discovery formats.

Open as a segment

14,133,779 companies; add a country, a sector or a band on the segment page. Counting is free.

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Catalogue record

As recorded in the cataloguetaxonomy release tax-2026.10last discovered 10 Sept 2026

A web standard for advertising service endpoints such as blog APIs.

Really Simple Discovery (RSD) defines a way for sites to expose metadata about remote editing and XML-RPC endpoints. It is used by blogging and CMS tools to auto-discover publishing APIs.

Kindstandard
Slugreally-simple-discovery
Deploymentself-hosted
Open sourceno
First discovered2025-02-03
Last discovered2026-09-10
Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10