⚡ Browser APIs in Switzerland

Browser APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are a set of functions that allow web developers to interact with the browser and system resources, providing features such as data storage, network requests, performance monitoring, graphics rendering, background tasks, and camera and microphone access.

Switzerland is a Central European country with a population of over 8.8 million people.

According to our data, browser APIs are detected on 27.5% of websites from Switzerland.

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⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top browser APIs in Switzerland in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Web Storage, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 79.1% share.
It is followed by XMLHttpRequest with 14.2% and Fetch with 12%.

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top APIs that are more popular in Switzerland than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

✨ Best Browser APIs

Below is a more detailed list of 16 browser APIs used on sites from Switzerland, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
Web Storage
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A browser API and client-side key-value database that allows websites to store persistent data on users' devices.
2
XMLHttpRequest
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.
3
Fetch
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A modern XMLHttpRequest alternative for fetching network resources.
4
Navigation Timing
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.
5
Beacon API
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.
6
Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out

Allowed sites to exclude themselves from Federated Learning of Cohorts cohort calculations using the "interest-cohort=()" permission policy.
7
WebSocket
Fremont, California, United States

A communication protocol that enables persistent, full-duplex data exchange between a client and a server over a single TCP connection.
8
WebGL
Beaverton, Oregon, United States

A cross-platform, royalty-free web standard that provides a low-level JavaScript API for rendering interactive 2D and 3D graphics directly in web browsers without plug-ins.
9
PerformanceObserver
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.
10
Geolocation API
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude.
11
WebRTC

A set of protocols and APIs that enable real-time communication natively from web browsers and and mobile applications.
12
Screen Orientation API
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Exposes the current type and angle of the device's screen orientation, and dispatches events when it changes.
13
Notifications API
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Used to configure and display desktop notifications to the user.
14
IndexedDB
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A transactional NoSQL database system for the persistent storage of structured data inside a user's browser.

Free
15
Speech Recognition API

A part of the Web Speech API that controls the speech recognition service.
16
Origin Trials
Mountain View, California, United States

A way for developers to test and use experimental web platform features.

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