⚡ Browser APIs in India

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.

India is a South Asian country with a population of over 1.4 billion people.

According to our data, browser APIs are detected on 38.1% of websites from India.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Web Storage, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 88.3% share.
It is followed by Fetch with 22.2% and XMLHttpRequest with 21.7%.

Web Storage 88.3%
Fetch 22.2%
XMLHttpRequest 21.7%
Beacon API 17.3%
Navigation Timing 16.9%
PerformanceObserver 2.6%
Geolocation API 0.9%
WebSocket 0.8%
WebGL 0.7%
Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out 0.5%
Notifications API 0.5%
Speech Recognition API 0.3%
📢 Speech Synthesis API 0.1%
WebRTC 0.1%
Origin Trials 0.07%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Fetch ^(-1)
4. Beacon API ^(-1)
7. Geolocation API ^(-3)
11. Notifications API ^(-1)
12. Speech Recognition API ^(-5)
13. 📢 Speech Synthesis API ^(-3)

✨ Best Browser APIs

Below is a more detailed list of 17 browser APIs used on sites from India, 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.	88.3%
2	Fetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A modern XMLHttpRequest alternative for fetching network resources.	22.2%
3	XMLHttpRequest Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.	21.7%
4	Beacon API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.	17.3%
5	Navigation Timing Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.	16.9%
6	PerformanceObserver Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.	2.6%
7	Geolocation API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude.	0.9%
8	WebSocket Fremont, California, United States API enables full-duplex communication between a web browser and a web server.	0.8%
9	WebGL A cross-platform, royalty-free open web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL.	0.7%
10	Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out Allowed sites to exclude themselves from Federated Learning of Cohorts cohort calculations using the "interest-cohort=()" permission policy.	0.5%
11	Notifications API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to configure and display desktop notifications to the user.	0.5%
12	Speech Recognition API A part of the Web Speech API that controls the speech recognition service.	0.3%
13	📢 Speech Synthesis API A part of the Web Speech API that controls the text-to-speech service.	0.1%
14	WebRTC A set of protocols and APIs that enable real-time communication natively from web browsers and and mobile applications.	0.1%
15	Origin Trials Mountain View, California, United States A way for developers to test and use experimental web platform features.	0.07%
16	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.	0.05%
17	IndexedDB Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A transactional NoSQL database system for the persistent storage of structured data inside a user's browser. Free	0.04%

👉 See Also

🌎 Browser APIs in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 67,209 websites from India.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.