⚡ Browser APIs in Saudi Arabia

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.

Saudi Arabia is a Western Asian country with a population of over 37 million people.

According to our data, browser APIs are detected on 35.7% of websites from Saudi Arabia.

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⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Web Storage, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 85.3% share.
It is followed by Fetch with 25.7% and XMLHttpRequest with 12.9%.

🚀 Highlights

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

✨ Best Browser APIs

Below is a more detailed list of 14 browser APIs used on sites from Saudi Arabia, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket 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.
2
Fetch
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A modern JavaScript API for requesting network resources and exchanging data between web applications and servers.
3
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.
4
Navigation Timing
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.
5
Beacon API
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.
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.
7
PerformanceObserver
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.
8
Geolocation API
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude.
9
Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out

Allowed sites to exclude themselves from Federated Learning of Cohorts cohort calculations using the "interest-cohort=()" permission policy.
10
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.
11
WebRTC

A set of protocols and APIs that enable real-time communication natively from web browsers and and mobile applications.
12
Notifications API
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Used to configure and display desktop notifications to the user.
13
Origin Trials
Mountain View, California, United States

A way for developers to test and use experimental web platform features.
14
📢 Speech Synthesis API

A part of the Web Speech API that controls the text-to-speech service.

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