⚡ Browser APIs in Malta

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.

Malta is a Southern European island country with a population of around 540 thousand people.

According to our data, browser APIs are detected on 38% of websites from Malta.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Web Storage, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 80.8% share.
It is followed by Fetch with 12.3% and Screen Orientation API with 11%.

Web Storage 80.8%
Fetch 12.3%
Screen Orientation API 11%
XMLHttpRequest 10.1%
Navigation Timing 6.3%
Beacon API 5.8%
WebSocket 1.3%
PerformanceObserver 1.3%
Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out 0.9%
WebGL 0.7%
Geolocation API 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Fetch ^(-1)
3. Screen Orientation API ^(-11)

✨ Best Browser APIs

Below is a more detailed list of 11 browser APIs used on sites from Malta, 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.	80.8%
2	Fetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A modern XMLHttpRequest alternative for fetching network resources.	12.3%
3	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.	11%
4	XMLHttpRequest Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.	10.1%
5	Navigation Timing Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.	6.3%
6	Beacon API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.	5.8%
7	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.	1.3%
8	PerformanceObserver Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.	1.3%
9	Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out Allowed sites to exclude themselves from Federated Learning of Cohorts cohort calculations using the "interest-cohort=()" permission policy.	0.9%
10	WebGL A cross-platform, royalty-free open web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL.	0.7%
11	Geolocation API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude.	0.2%

Data is based on the analysis of 1,409 websites from Malta.
Statistics were last calculated on March 30, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.