⚡ Browser APIs in Iran

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.

Iran is a Western Asian country with a population of over 89 million people.

According to our data, browser APIs are detected on 35% of websites from Iran.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Web Storage, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 93.6% share.
It is followed by Fetch with 10.3% and XMLHttpRequest with 3.9%.

Web Storage 93.6%
Fetch 10.3%
XMLHttpRequest 3.9%
WebGL 1%
WebSocket 0.9%
Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out 0.8%
Navigation Timing 0.5%
Beacon API 0.4%
Geolocation API 0.2%
Notifications API 0.2%
PerformanceObserver 0.1%
WebRTC 0.04%
📢 Speech Synthesis API 0.01%
Screen Orientation API 0.01%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Fetch ^(-1)
4. WebGL ^(-5)
5. WebSocket ^(-2)
6. Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out ^(-2)
9. Geolocation API ^(-1)
10. Notifications API ^(-2)
12. WebRTC ^(-1)
13. 📢 Speech Synthesis API ^(-3)

✨ Best Browser APIs

Below is a more detailed list of 14 browser APIs used on sites from Iran, 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.	93.6%
2	Fetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A modern XMLHttpRequest alternative for fetching network resources.	10.3%
3	XMLHttpRequest Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.	3.9%
4	WebGL A cross-platform, royalty-free open web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL.	1%
5	WebSocket Fremont, California, United States API enables full-duplex communication between a web browser and a web server.	0.9%
6	Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out Allowed sites to exclude themselves from Federated Learning of Cohorts cohort calculations using the "interest-cohort=()" permission policy.	0.8%
7	Navigation Timing Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.	0.5%
8	Beacon API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.	0.4%
9	Geolocation API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude.	0.2%
10	Notifications API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to configure and display desktop notifications to the user.	0.2%
11	PerformanceObserver Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.	0.1%
12	WebRTC A set of protocols and APIs that enable real-time communication natively from web browsers and and mobile applications.	0.04%
13	📢 Speech Synthesis API A part of the Web Speech API that controls the text-to-speech service.	0.01%
14	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.	0.01%

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