🆚 Beacon API vs. Geolocation API
- 📈 Beacon API is much more popular than Geolocation API.
- 🌍 Beacon API is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ 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.
The Geolocation API allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude. For privacy reasons, the user is asked for permission to report location information.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #5
Browser APIs › Rank #10
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Beacon API technology is 20 times more popular than Geolocation API.
Total websites
Market share
Browser APIs
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Beacon API is more popular than Geolocation API in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
India
Germany
Canada
France
Japan
Brazil
Italy
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.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Jamaica in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in India in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Brazil in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Indonesia in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Korea in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Beacon API is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and business, while Geolocation API is more commonly used on restaurants sites.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Fashion/Beauty
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Health
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ 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 3,512,920 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.