⚡ Browser APIs in Iraq

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.

Iraq is a Western Asian country with a population of over 45 million people.

According to our data, browser APIs are detected on 34.5% of websites from Iraq.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Web Storage, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 86.6% share.
It is followed by Fetch with 16.5% and XMLHttpRequest with 11.6%.

Web Storage 86.6%
Fetch 16.5%
XMLHttpRequest 11.6%
Navigation Timing 9.8%
Beacon API 6.7%
Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out 1.8%
WebGL 1.8%
WebRTC 1.8%
WebSocket 1.2%
Geolocation API 1.2%
PerformanceObserver 0.6%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Fetch ^(-1)
6. Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out ^(-2)
7. WebGL ^(-2)
8. WebRTC ^(-5)

✨ Best Browser APIs

Below is a more detailed list of 11 browser APIs used on sites from Iraq, 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.	86.6%
2	Fetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A modern XMLHttpRequest alternative for fetching network resources.	16.5%
3	XMLHttpRequest Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.	11.6%
4	Navigation Timing Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.	9.8%
5	Beacon API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.	6.7%
6	Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out Allowed sites to exclude themselves from Federated Learning of Cohorts cohort calculations using the "interest-cohort=()" permission policy.	1.8%
7	WebGL A cross-platform, royalty-free open web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL.	1.8%
8	WebRTC A set of protocols and APIs that enable real-time communication natively from web browsers and and mobile applications.	1.8%
9	WebSocket Fremont, California, United States API enables full-duplex communication between a web browser and a web server.	1.2%
10	Geolocation API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude.	1.2%
11	PerformanceObserver Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.	0.6%

👉 See Also

🌎 Browser APIs in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 475 websites from Iraq.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.