🆚 Beacon API vs. Fetch
- 📈 Fetch is noticeably more popular than Beacon API.
- 🌎 Fetch is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Beacon API is more popular in Australia, Pakistan, and New Zealand.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Beacon APIType
Browser API
Browser API
About
The Beacon API is used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.
Fetch is a modern XMLHttpRequest alternative for fetching network resources.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #5
Browser APIs › Rank #3
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Fetch browser API is 1.4 times more popular than Beacon API.
Total websites
Market share
Browser APIs
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Fetch is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Beacon API is more popular in Australia, Pakistan, and New Zealand.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
India
Australia
France
Canada
Brazil
Japan
Netherlands
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Australia in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Pakistan in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in New Zealand in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Argentina in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in India in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Spain in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Fetch is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while Beacon API is more commonly used on online shopping, fashion and beauty, and health sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
General News
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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WebSocket🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.