⚡ Browser APIs in Uruguay

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.

Uruguay is a South American country with a population of over 3.4 million people.

According to our data, browser APIs are detected on 31.4% of websites from Uruguay.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Web Storage, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 85.9% share.
It is followed by Fetch with 18.7% and Navigation Timing with 9.9%.

Web Storage 85.9%
Fetch 18.7%
Navigation Timing 9.9%
XMLHttpRequest 9.1%
Beacon API 7.5%
PerformanceObserver 2.6%
Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out 2.1%
WebSocket 1.6%
Geolocation API 1%
WebGL 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Fetch ^(-1)
3. Navigation Timing ^(-1)
7. Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out ^(-1)
9. Geolocation API ^(-1)

✨ Best Browser APIs

Below is a more detailed list of 10 browser APIs used on sites from Uruguay, 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.	85.9%
2	Fetch Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A modern XMLHttpRequest alternative for fetching network resources.	18.7%
3	Navigation Timing Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.	9.9%
4	XMLHttpRequest Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.	9.1%
5	Beacon API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.	7.5%
6	PerformanceObserver Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.	2.6%
7	Interest-Based Advertising Opt-Out Allowed sites to exclude themselves from Federated Learning of Cohorts cohort calculations using the "interest-cohort=()" permission policy.	2.1%
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.	1.6%
9	Geolocation API Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude.	1%
10	WebGL A cross-platform, royalty-free open web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL.	0.3%

👉 See Also

🌎 Browser APIs in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 1,822 websites from Uruguay.
Statistics were last calculated on March 30, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.