⚡ Browser APIs in Germany

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.

Germany is a Central European country with a population of around 84 million people.

According to our data, browser APIs are detected on 29.1% of websites from Germany.

Statistics based on 246K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Web Storage, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 74.1% share.
It is followed by XMLHttpRequest with 21.9% and Fetch with 12.6%.

Web Storage 74.1%
XMLHttpRequest 21.9%
Fetch 12.6%
Beacon API 7.4%
Navigation Timing 6.9%
Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out 5.3%
WebSocket 2.4%
WebGL 1.3%
PerformanceObserver 1%
Screen Orientation API 0.4%
Geolocation API 0.4%
WebRTC 0.2%
Web Audio API 0.2%
📢 Speech Synthesis API 0.06%
Origin Trials 0.06%

🚀 Highlights

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

6. Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out ^(-2)
8. WebGL ^(-1)
10. Screen Orientation API ^(-3)
14. 📢 Speech Synthesis API ^(-2)

✨ Best Browser APIs

Below is a more detailed list of 18 browser APIs used on sites from Germany, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Web Storage Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A browser API that provides client-side key-value storage for websites, allowing data to be stored directly in a user's web browser.	74.1%
2	XMLHttpRequest Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A JavaScript API for sending HTTP and HTTPS requests and receiving data from web servers without reloading the current page.	21.9%
3	Fetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A modern JavaScript API for requesting network resources and exchanging data between web applications and servers.	12.6%
4	Beacon API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.	7.4%
5	Navigation Timing Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.	6.9%
6	Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out The interest-based advertising opt-out allowed sites to exclude themselves from Federated Learning of Cohorts cohort calculations using the "interest-cohort=()" permission policy.	5.3%
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.	2.4%
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.	1.3%
9	PerformanceObserver Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.	1%
10	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.	0.4%
11	Geolocation API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude.	0.4%
12	WebRTC Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A set of APIs and protocols originally developed by Google that enables real-time audio, video, and peer-to-peer data communication in web browsers and mobile applications.	0.2%
⏳	Web Audio API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A browser API for processing and generating audio in web applications.	0.2%
14	📢 Speech Synthesis API A part of the Web Speech API that controls the text-to-speech service.	0.06%
15	Origin Trials Mountain View, California, United States Time-limited programs that allow developers to test experimental web platform features with real users in live production environments.	0.06%
16	Notifications API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to configure and display desktop notifications to the user.	0.05%
17	IndexedDB Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A transactional NoSQL database system for the persistent storage of structured data inside a user's browser. Free	0.03%
18	Speech Recognition API A part of the Web Speech API that controls the speech recognition service.	0.02%

👉 See Also

🌎 Browser APIs in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 246,488 websites from Germany.
We currently track the presence of 18 browser APIs across the web.
Of these, 18 were detected on websites from Germany.
Statistics were last calculated on August 21, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.