⚡ Browser APIs in Pakistan

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.

Pakistan is a South Asian country with a population of over 242 million people.

According to our data, browser APIs are detected on 49.9% of websites from Pakistan.

Statistics based on 7K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Web Storage, which dominates the market with a substantial 91.6% share.
It is followed by XMLHttpRequest with 33% and Beacon API with 27.4%.

Web Storage 91.6%
XMLHttpRequest 33%
Beacon API 27.4%
Navigation Timing 26.5%
Fetch 20.8%
PerformanceObserver 1.3%
WebGL 0.9%
WebSocket 0.4%
Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out 0.3%
Geolocation API 0.3%
Notifications API 0.2%
Speech Recognition API 0.2%
📢 Speech Synthesis API 0.08%
IndexedDB 0.08%
Origin Trials 0.05%

🚀 Highlights

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

3. Beacon API ^(-2)
7. WebGL ^(-2)
11. Notifications API ^(-1)
12. Speech Recognition API ^(-5)
13. 📢 Speech Synthesis API ^(-3)

✨ Best Browser APIs

Below is a more detailed list of 16 browser APIs used on sites from Pakistan, 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.	91.6%
2	XMLHttpRequest Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.	33%
3	Beacon API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.	27.4%
4	Navigation Timing Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.	26.5%
5	Fetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A modern XMLHttpRequest alternative for fetching network resources.	20.8%
6	PerformanceObserver Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.	1.3%
7	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.	0.9%
8	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.	0.4%
9	Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out Allowed sites to exclude themselves from Federated Learning of Cohorts cohort calculations using the "interest-cohort=()" permission policy.	0.3%
10	Geolocation API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude.	0.3%
11	Notifications API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to configure and display desktop notifications to the user.	0.2%
12	Speech Recognition API A part of the Web Speech API that controls the speech recognition service.	0.2%
13	📢 Speech Synthesis API A part of the Web Speech API that controls the text-to-speech service.	0.08%
14	IndexedDB Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A transactional NoSQL database system for the persistent storage of structured data inside a user's browser. Free	0.08%
15	Origin Trials Mountain View, California, United States A way for developers to test and use experimental web platform features.	0.05%
16	WebRTC A set of protocols and APIs that enable real-time communication natively from web browsers and and mobile applications.	0.05%

🗃️ 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 7,296 websites from Pakistan.
We currently track the presence of 17 browser APIs across the web.
Of these, 16 were detected on websites from Pakistan.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.