🆚 Beacon API vs. Navigation Timing
- 📈 Beacon API is as popular as Navigation Timing.
- 🌍 Beacon API is more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada.
- 🌎 Navigation Timing is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Brazil.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ 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.
Navigation Timing is a part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #4
Browser APIs › Rank #5
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Beacon API technology is as popular as Navigation Timing.
Total websites
Market share
Browser APIs
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Beacon API is more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada, while Navigation Timing is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Brazil.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Canada
Germany
India
Japan
France
Brazil
Italy
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Pakistan in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Argentina in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Israel in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Guatemala in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Hong Kong in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Brazil in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Mexico in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Colombia in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Taiwan 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 marketing and merchandising, business, and health, while Navigation Timing is more commonly used on online shopping, fashion and beauty, and sports sites.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Business
Sports
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Health
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.