⚡ Browser APIs in Laos

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.

Laos is a Southeast Asian country with a population of over 7.7 million people.

According to our data, browser APIs are detected on 30.6% of websites from Laos.

Statistics based on 716 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Web Storage, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 86.3% share.
It is followed by XMLHttpRequest with 19.6% and Beacon API with 14.2%.

Web Storage 86.3%
XMLHttpRequest 19.6%
Beacon API 14.2%
Fetch 14.2%
Navigation Timing 13.7%
WebSocket 1.8%
PerformanceObserver 1.8%
WebGL 1.8%
Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out 0.5%
IndexedDB 0.5%
Geolocation API 0.5%
Screen Orientation API 0.5%
WebRTC 0.5%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Beacon API ^(-2)
6. WebSocket ^(-1)
8. WebGL ^(-1)
10. IndexedDB ^(-1)
12. Screen Orientation API ^(-2)

✨ Best Browser APIs

Below is a more detailed list of 13 browser APIs used on sites from Laos, 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.	86.3%
2	XMLHttpRequest Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.	19.6%
3	Beacon API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.	14.2%
4	Fetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A modern XMLHttpRequest alternative for fetching network resources.	14.2%
5	Navigation Timing Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.	13.7%
6	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.	1.8%
7	PerformanceObserver Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.	1.8%
8	WebGL Beaverton, Oregon, United States A cross-platform, royalty-free web standard that provides a low-level JavaScript API for rendering interactive 2D and 3D graphics directly in web browsers without plug-ins.	1.8%
9	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%
10	IndexedDB Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A transactional NoSQL database system for the persistent storage of structured data inside a user's browser. Free	0.5%
11	Geolocation API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude.	0.5%
12	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.	0.5%
13	WebRTC A set of protocols and APIs that enable real-time communication natively from web browsers and and mobile applications.	0.5%

🗃️ 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 716 websites from Laos.
We currently track the presence of 17 browser APIs across the web.
Of these, 13 were detected on websites from Laos.
Statistics were last calculated on May 21, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.