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Websites using rel="me" identity links

rel=me links tie a website to its owner's other profiles, and Mastodon and IndieAuth use them to verify identity. About 3,797,237 websites in the PageSourceSearch index contain the code that reveals it; the 50 highest-ranked are listed below.

How is rel="me" identity links detected?

The page has a link or anchor element with the attribute rel="me". The discovery keyword is the exact bytes PageSourceSearch looks for in every stored page and script:

rel="me" Search the index for it

A literal is matched byte for byte, case-sensitively. Combine it with another keyword, a domain, a kind or a date filter on the search page to narrow the list. About rel="me" identity links

Top 50 websites using rel="me" identity links

Ranked by the domain's position in the crawl's ranked list (Common Crawl harmonic centrality), highest first. view source opens the stored page or script with the match highlighted. Computed 2026-10-04 19:00:02 UTC.

#WebsiteRankFound in
1 mozilla.org 35 html https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ view source profile
2 jquery.com 37 html https://jquery.com/ view source profile
3 ietf.org 87 html https://www.ietf.org/ view source profile
4 techcrunch.com 103 html https://techcrunch.com/ view source profile
5 lemonde.fr 207 html https://www.lemonde.fr/ view source profile
6 postgresql.org 238 html https://www.postgresql.org/ view source profile
7 bleepingcomputer.com 264 html https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ view source profile
8 propublica.org 379 html https://www.propublica.org/ view source profile
9 python.org 417 html https://www.python.org/psf-landing/ view source profile
10 tagesschau.de 450 html https://www.tagesschau.de/ view source profile
11 php.net 472 html https://www.php.net/ view source profile
12 nodejs.org 487 html https://nodejs.org/en view source profile
13 archlinux.org 526 html https://archlinux.org/ view source profile
14 kremlin.ru 528 html http://kremlin.ru/ view source profile
15 web.dev 541 html https://web.dev/articles/adapting-ty…er-preferences-with-css view source profile
16 snopes.com 561 html https://www.snopes.com/ view source profile
17 gnupg.org 610 html https://gnupg.org/ view source profile
18 daringfireball.net 613 html https://daringfireball.net/ view source profile
19 openstack.org 709 html https://www.openstack.org/ view source profile
20 occrp.org 770 html https://www.occrp.org/en/feature/alb…-for-massive-corruption view source profile
21 bellingcat.com 799 html https://www.bellingcat.com/ view source profile
22 w3techs.com 818 html https://w3techs.com/ view source profile
23 scala-lang.org 822 html https://scala-lang.org/ view source profile
24 calacademy.org 924 html https://www.calacademy.org/ view source profile
25 consumeraffairs.com 969 html https://www.consumeraffairs.com/about/ view source profile
26 home-assistant.io 1,003 html https://www.home-assistant.io/ view source profile
27 djangoproject.com 1,051 html https://www.djangoproject.com/ view source profile
28 gutenberg.org 1,280 html https://www.gutenberg.org/ view source profile
29 emojipedia.org 1,354 html https://emojipedia.org/ view source profile
30 thenewstack.io 1,399 html https://thenewstack.io/ view source profile
31 obsproject.com 1,462 html https://obsproject.com/ view source profile
32 webkit.org 1,466 html https://webkit.org/ view source profile
33 rust-lang.org 1,542 html https://rust-lang.org/ view source profile
34 sflcn.com 1,568 html https://sflcn.com/ view source profile
35 fedoraproject.org 1,598 html https://fedoraproject.org/ view source profile
36 torproject.org 1,717 html https://www.torproject.org/ view source profile
37 typescriptlang.org 1,913 html https://www.typescriptlang.org/ view source profile
38 gimp.org 1,928 html https://www.gimp.org/ view source profile
39 macrumors.com 1,948 html https://www.macrumors.com/ view source profile
40 signal.org 1,950 html https://signal.org/ view source profile
41 brew.sh 1,988 html https://brew.sh/ view source profile
42 pydata.org 2,005 html https://pydata.org/ view source profile
43 sentry.io 2,019 html https://sentry.io/product/error-monitoring/ view source profile
44 meyerweb.com 2,111 html https://meyerweb.com/ view source profile
45 packagist.org 2,115 html https://packagist.org/contact view source profile
46 jupyter.org 2,119 html https://jupyter.org/ view source profile
47 sass-lang.com 2,125 html https://sass-lang.com/ view source profile
48 flipboard.com 2,237 html https://flipboard.com/ view source profile
49 go.dev 2,293 html https://go.dev/ view source profile
50 opensource.com 2,348 html https://opensource.com/ view source profile

How it appears in the source

From mozilla.org (html):

reflang="zh-TW" href="https://www.mozilla.org/zh-TW/" title="正體中文 (繁體)">                        <link href="https://mastodon.social/@mozilla" rel="me">      <!--[if lt IE 9]>

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Questions about finding rel="me" identity links

How does PageSourceSearch know a website uses rel="me" identity links?
By the source itself: The page has a link or anchor element with the attribute rel="me". PageSourceSearch stores the raw HTML and first-party JavaScript of each crawled site and matches the keyword byte for byte, so every listed site's stored source contains it.
Is this a complete list of websites using rel="me" identity links?
No. The page lists the 50 highest-ranked sites in the index whose source holds the keyword, out of about 3,797,237 websites that do; the count is the index's estimate at the time the list was computed. Run the keyword as a search to page through all of them, or add a kind or date filter.
How do I find websites that use rel="me" identity links together with another technology?
Search for both keywords at once: several terms separated by spaces must all be found on the same site, or with the Same page toggle in the same page. For example rel="me" with wp-content/plugins/ lists the WordPress sites that use rel="me" identity links.