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RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.

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322websites

use it — 12.6% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#6of 34

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 141)

56public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

15.11% of all websites we track run RSS▲ 0.03 points since 20 Sep

At a glance

UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,555 websites · refreshed weekly

How RSS sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details

54PerformanceLowaverage site: 5087AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8993Best practicesGoodaverage site: 9392SEOGoodaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about as fast as the average site

RSS sites
4.4 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most RSS sites load in 3.7–7.3 s. Home page weight: 4.4 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 52 public sites measured.

Where are they hosted?

Mostly Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare

  • Amazon Web Services32%
  • Cloudflare27%
  • Fastly5%
  • Google Cloud4%
  • Other32%
Canada 38%United States 34%Netherlands 7%

Who uses it?

Business Services sites use RSS 1.5× more than average

Technology and Software63%
Business Services1.5× avg18%
Software as a Service (SaaS)5%
Domain Registration and Hosting2%

Share of 56 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

Browser-security check

28% of graded sites pass

5of 18 score B or better

Rates each site’s own security settings, not RSS. 18 public sites graded so far.

How RSS sites are built

Closest partners. The number says how many times more often the tool runs on RSS sites than on an average website. Hover a partner for its share of sites.

Twitter Emoji (Twemoji)6×Site Kit6×RankMath SEO6×Elementor6×Contact Form 75×WP Rocket5×Yoast SEO4×WordPress3×MySQL3×

Stacks we see most. Tools that tend to run together with RSS on the same websites. The percentage is the share of all 322 RSS sites that run the whole stack.

15 stacks · swipe, drag or use the arrows
#1

RSS + Elementor + Site Kit + RankMath SEO

4.3%14 of 322 sites
#2

RSS + Yoast SEO + GSAP

5.3%17 of 322 sites
#3

RSS + Yoast SEO + Elementor + Hello Elementor

3.1%10 of 322 sites
#4

RSS + Elementor + Astra

4%13 of 322 sites
#5

RSS + WP Rocket + RankMath SEO

3.4%11 of 322 sites
#6

RSS + Yoast SEO + YouTube

3.4%11 of 322 sites
#7

RSS + Funding Choices + Google Sign-in

3.4%11 of 322 sites
#8

RSS + Yoast SEO + Google Maps

3.1%10 of 322 sites
#9

RSS + Bootstrap + Site Kit + Contact Form 7

2.2%7 of 322 sites
#10

RSS + Elementor + Contact Form 7 + ElementsKit

2.2%7 of 322 sites
#11

RSS + Site Kit + WP Rocket

2.5%8 of 322 sites
#12

RSS + Site Kit + WooCommerce

2.5%8 of 322 sites
#13

RSS + WP Rocket + Contact Form 7

2.2%7 of 322 sites
#14

RSS + Contact Form 7 + RankMath SEO

2.2%7 of 322 sites
#15

RSS + Bootstrap + GSAP

2.2%7 of 322 sites

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 322 RSS sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Google Analytics67%Facebook Pixel18%Site Kit16%Google Tag Manager66%Yoast SEO36%RankMath SEO13%Elementor25%WP Rocket16%Contact Form 714%Funding Choices12%Cart Functionality12%
AnalyticsTag managerSearch visibilityPage builderSpeed and cachingFormsCookie consentOnline store

Similar tools in its category

Miscellaneous: 141 tools known, 34 seen in our scans

Webpack938 sitesAlternativeHTTP/3858 sitesAlternativeModule Federation624 sitesAlternativePWA489 sitesAlternativePopper73 sitesAlternativeLottieFiles67 sitesAlternativePyScript59 sitesAlternativePrism18 sitesAlternativeOpen Graph1,524 sitesUsed togetherBabel31 sitesUsed togetherPermutive20 sitesUsed togetherAdmiral11 sitesUsed together

How websites combine RSS with other tools

Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.

Integrates with another 12Needs another tool 9Complements another tool 5Built on a platform 4

Websites using RSS

322 websites use RSS: 12.6% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months. A selection is shown below.

Scores are out of 100: P Performance · A Accessibility · B Best practices · S SEO. Green 80+, yellow 65–79, orange 50–64, red below 50. The dot shows whether our last scan found the site failing (red) or not (green); Red, amber or blue: an active incident on the site's status page (outage, degraded, maintenance) or a failing scan; amber also means a certificate ending within 30 days. Hover the dot for details.

Questions about RSS

How many websites use RSS?
We found RSS on 322 of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (12.6%). 56 of them have a public status page.
What is RSS often used with?
Among the websites we scan, RSS is often found alongside PHP (64.9% of its sites), MySQL (62.4% of its sites), WordPress (62.4% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to RSS?
Other miscellaneous tools we recognize include Open Graph, Webpack, HTTP/3, Module Federation.

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