Words based on context for "logout" on websites?

Question

Two part question, would it be more common in German websites to have logout or signout(equivalents)? and what would be best to have as a general word in web applications?

I have found the following words for "Logout"

• abmelden
• ausmelden
• Fehlermeldung
• ausloggen

In Google translate, ausloggen is the word that came up, but I was not able to find any actual examples except for a forum where a contributor wrote

Ausloggen bei yahoo

And I found several other articles where people asked how to logout, they all seem to use that world ausloggen.

When I switched my google setting to German, the word that I saw was abmelden which (i think) translates to "Sign out".

Answer 1

In German Abmelden and Ausloggen can be used as synonyms (in the context of websites). And while Abmelden might be a bit more common, both terms will be self-explanatory to a german user.

For example Amazon and Google (as you already saw) use Abmelden while PayPal uses Ausloggen in the german version of their websites.

A literal translation of signout in German, following the explanation in an answer from ELL SE would be (sich) austragen, however this is not used at all on websites.

And just a hint regarding the translations of Logout you mentioned: Fehlermeldung means error message, which clearly doesn't fit and ausmelden is not even a (german) word.