⚡ Browser APIs in Russia

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.

According to our data, browser APIs are detected on 24.1% of websites from Russia.

⭐ Most Popular in 2025

The following chart shows the top browser APIs in Russia in 2025, based on market share.

The most popular is Web Storage, which dominates the market with a substantial 65.7% share.
It is followed by XMLHttpRequest with 32.5% and Fetch with 7.9%.

Web Storage 65.7%
XMLHttpRequest 32.5%
Fetch 7.9%
IndexedDB 3.1%
Navigation Timing 2.5%
WebSocket 2.2%
Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out 2%
WebGL 1%
Beacon API 0.7%
PerformanceObserver 0.5%
WebRTC 0.3%
Notifications API 0.2%
Screen Orientation API 0.2%
Geolocation API 0.2%
📢 Speech Synthesis API 0.2%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. IndexedDB ^(-7)
6. WebSocket ^(-1)
7. Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out ^(-1)
8. WebGL ^(-1)
11. WebRTC ^(-4)
12. Notifications API ^(-1)
15. 📢 Speech Synthesis API ^(-1)

✨ Best Browser APIs

Below is a more detailed list of all browser APIs used on sites from Russia, 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.	65.7%
2	XMLHttpRequest Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.	32.5%
3	Fetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A modern XMLHttpRequest alternative for fetching network resources.	7.9%
4	IndexedDB Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A transactional NoSQL database system for the persistent storage of structured data inside a user's browser. Free	3.1%
5	Navigation Timing Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.	2.5%
6	WebSocket Fremont, California, United States API enables full-duplex communication between a web browser and a web server.	2.2%
7	Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out Allowed sites to exclude themselves from Federated Learning of Cohorts cohort calculations using the "interest-cohort=()" permission policy.	2%
8	WebGL A cross-platform, royalty-free open web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL.	1%
9	Beacon API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.	0.7%
10	PerformanceObserver Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.	0.5%
11	WebRTC A set of protocols and APIs that enable real-time communication natively from web browsers and and mobile applications.	0.3%
12	Notifications API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to configure and display desktop notifications to the user.	0.2%
13	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.	0.2%
14	Geolocation API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude.	0.2%
15	📢 Speech Synthesis API A part of the Web Speech API that controls the text-to-speech service.	0.2%
16	Origin Trials Mountain View, California, United States A way for developers to test and use experimental web platform features.	0.09%
17	Speech Recognition API A part of the Web Speech API that controls the speech recognition service.	0.05%

👉 See Also

🌎 Browser APIs in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 71,599 websites from Russia.
Statistics were last calculated on December 28, 2025.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.