⚡ Browser APIs in the United Kingdom

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.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our data, browser APIs are detected on 36% of websites from the United Kingdom.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Web Storage, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 85.9% share.
It is followed by XMLHttpRequest with 19.5% and Fetch with 15.3%.

Web Storage 85.9%
XMLHttpRequest 19.5%
Fetch 15.3%
Beacon API 13%
Navigation Timing 12.7%
WebSocket 2.9%
PerformanceObserver 2.8%
Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out 1.5%
WebGL 0.7%
Geolocation API 0.6%
Screen Orientation API 0.08%
📢 Speech Synthesis API 0.07%
Origin Trials 0.04%
Notifications API 0.04%
WebRTC 0.04%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. Beacon API ^(-1)
6. WebSocket ^(-1)
11. Screen Orientation API ^(-3)
12. 📢 Speech Synthesis API ^(-4)
13. Origin Trials ^(-2)
16. Speech Recognition API ^(-1)

✨ Best Browser APIs

Below is a more detailed list of 17 browser APIs used on sites from the United Kingdom, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market 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.	85.9%
2	XMLHttpRequest Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.	19.5%
3	Fetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A modern XMLHttpRequest alternative for fetching network resources.	15.3%
4	Beacon API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.	13%
5	Navigation Timing Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.	12.7%
6	WebSocket Fremont, California, United States API enables full-duplex communication between a web browser and a web server.	2.9%
7	PerformanceObserver Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.	2.8%
8	Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out Allowed sites to exclude themselves from Federated Learning of Cohorts cohort calculations using the "interest-cohort=()" permission policy.	1.5%
9	WebGL A cross-platform, royalty-free open web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL.	0.7%
10	Geolocation API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude.	0.6%
11	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.	0.08%
12	📢 Speech Synthesis API A part of the Web Speech API that controls the text-to-speech service.	0.07%
13	Origin Trials Mountain View, California, United States A way for developers to test and use experimental web platform features.	0.04%
14	Notifications API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to configure and display desktop notifications to the user.	0.04%
15	WebRTC A set of protocols and APIs that enable real-time communication natively from web browsers and and mobile applications.	0.04%
16	Speech Recognition API A part of the Web Speech API that controls the speech recognition service.	0.04%
17	IndexedDB Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A transactional NoSQL database system for the persistent storage of structured data inside a user's browser. Free	0.01%

👉 See Also

🌎 Browser APIs in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 157,370 websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.