🆚 Beacon API vs. Screen Orientation API
- 📈 Beacon API is much more popular than Screen Orientation API.
- 🌎 Beacon API is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 🌍 Screen Orientation API is more popular in Malta.
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 Screen Orientation API exposes the current type and angle of the device's screen orientation, and dispatches events when it changes.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #5
Browser APIs › Rank #14
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Beacon API technology is 125 times more popular than Screen Orientation 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 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Screen Orientation API is more popular in Malta.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
India
Germany
Canada
Japan
France
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.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Malta in the Browser APIs category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Germany in the Browser APIs category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in the United Kingdom in the Browser APIs category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Italy in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Beacon API is more popular than Screen Orientation API in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Fashion/Beauty
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
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.