⚡ Browser APIs in Kenya

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.

Kenya is an East African country with a population of over 55 million people.

According to our data, browser APIs are detected on 45.4% of websites from Kenya.

Statistics based on 2K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Web Storage, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 90.7% share.
It is followed by Fetch with 13.5% and XMLHttpRequest with 8.5%.

Web Storage 90.7%
Fetch 13.5%
XMLHttpRequest 8.5%
Beacon API 5.5%
Navigation Timing 5.4%
Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out 2.2%
PerformanceObserver 1%
WebGL 0.8%
WebSocket 0.7%
Geolocation API 0.4%
📢 Speech Synthesis API 0.1%
Speech Recognition API 0.1%
Notifications API 0.1%
IndexedDB 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Fetch ^(-1)
4. Beacon API ^(-1)
6. Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out ^(-2)
8. WebGL ^(-1)
11. 📢 Speech Synthesis API ^(-5)
12. Speech Recognition API ^(-5)

✨ Best Browser APIs

Below is a more detailed list of 14 browser APIs used on sites from Kenya, 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.	90.7%
2	Fetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A modern XMLHttpRequest alternative for fetching network resources.	13.5%
3	XMLHttpRequest Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.	8.5%
4	Beacon API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.	5.5%
5	Navigation Timing Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.	5.4%
6	Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out Allowed sites to exclude themselves from Federated Learning of Cohorts cohort calculations using the "interest-cohort=()" permission policy.	2.2%
7	PerformanceObserver Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.	1%
8	WebGL A cross-platform, royalty-free open web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL.	0.8%
9	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.	0.7%
10	Geolocation API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude.	0.4%
11	📢 Speech Synthesis API A part of the Web Speech API that controls the text-to-speech service.	0.1%
12	Speech Recognition API A part of the Web Speech API that controls the speech recognition service.	0.1%
13	Notifications API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to configure and display desktop notifications to the user.	0.1%
14	IndexedDB Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A transactional NoSQL database system for the persistent storage of structured data inside a user's browser. Free	0.1%

👉 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 2,215 websites from Kenya.
We currently track the presence of 17 browser APIs across the web.
Of these, 14 were detected on websites from Kenya.
Statistics were last calculated on April 7, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.