⚡ Browser APIs in Taiwan

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.

Taiwan is an East Asian island country with a population of around 23.6 million people.

According to our data, browser APIs are detected on 21.6% of websites from Taiwan.

Statistics based on 12K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Web Storage, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 77.7% share.
It is followed by Fetch with 21.7% and Navigation Timing with 15.3%.

Web Storage 77.7%
Fetch 21.7%
Navigation Timing 15.3%
XMLHttpRequest 13.5%
Beacon API 5.9%
Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out 2.7%
WebSocket 1.2%
WebGL 1.1%
PerformanceObserver 0.8%
Geolocation API 0.6%
Notifications API 0.5%
Speech Recognition API 0.1%
Origin Trials 0.04%
📢 Speech Synthesis API 0.04%
WebRTC 0.04%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Fetch ^(-1)
3. Navigation Timing ^(-1)
6. Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out ^(-2)
8. WebGL ^(-1)
11. Notifications API ^(-1)
12. Speech Recognition API ^(-5)
13. Origin Trials ^(-2)
14. 📢 Speech Synthesis API ^(-2)

✨ Best Browser APIs

Below is a more detailed list of 16 browser APIs used on sites from Taiwan, 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.	77.7%
2	Fetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A modern XMLHttpRequest alternative for fetching network resources.	21.7%
3	Navigation Timing Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.	15.3%
4	XMLHttpRequest Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.	13.5%
5	Beacon API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.	5.9%
6	Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out Allowed sites to exclude themselves from Federated Learning of Cohorts cohort calculations using the "interest-cohort=()" permission policy.	2.7%
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.	1.2%
8	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.	1.1%
9	PerformanceObserver Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.	0.8%
10	Geolocation API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude.	0.6%
11	Notifications API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to configure and display desktop notifications to the user.	0.5%
12	Speech Recognition API A part of the Web Speech API that controls the speech recognition service.	0.1%
13	Origin Trials Mountain View, California, United States A way for developers to test and use experimental web platform features.	0.04%
14	📢 Speech Synthesis API A part of the Web Speech API that controls the text-to-speech service.	0.04%
15	WebRTC A set of protocols and APIs that enable real-time communication natively from web browsers and and mobile applications.	0.04%
16	IndexedDB Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A transactional NoSQL database system for the persistent storage of structured data inside a user's browser. Free	0.04%

👉 See Also

🌎 Browser APIs in other countries

🗃️ 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 12,564 websites from Taiwan.
We currently track the presence of 17 browser APIs across the web.
Of these, 16 were detected on websites from Taiwan.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.