⚡ 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 50% 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 32.8% and Beacon API with 27.1%.

Web Storage 91.6%
XMLHttpRequest 32.8%
Beacon API 27.1%
Navigation Timing 26.2%
Fetch 21%
PerformanceObserver 1.2%
WebGL 0.8%
WebSocket 0.4%
Geolocation API 0.3%
Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out 0.3%
Notifications API 0.2%
Speech Recognition API 0.2%
Origin Trials 0.1%
📢 Speech Synthesis API 0.1%
IndexedDB 0.08%

🚀 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)
9. Geolocation API ^(-1)
11. Notifications API ^(-3)
12. Speech Recognition API ^(-5)
14. 📢 Speech Synthesis API ^(-2)

✨ 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 that provides client-side key-value storage for websites, allowing data to be stored directly in a user's web browser.	91.6%
2	XMLHttpRequest Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A JavaScript API for sending HTTP and HTTPS requests and receiving data from web servers without reloading the current page.	32.8%
3	Beacon API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.	27.1%
4	Navigation Timing Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.	26.2%
5	Fetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A modern JavaScript API for requesting network resources and exchanging data between web applications and servers.	21%
6	PerformanceObserver Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.	1.2%
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.	0.8%
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	Geolocation API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude.	0.3%
10	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%
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	Origin Trials Mountain View, California, United States A way for developers to test and use experimental web platform features.	0.1%
14	📢 Speech Synthesis API A part of the Web Speech API that controls the text-to-speech service.	0.1%
15	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%
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 7,581 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 June 19, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.