🆚 Beacon API vs. Web Audio API

Statistics for Web Audio API are still being collected and do not yet reflect its full market share.

Beacon API

Web Audio API

Type

Browser API

About

The Beacon API is used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.

The Web Audio API is a browser API for processing and generating audio in web applications.

It uses a modular audio graph built from interconnected audio nodes, supports audio from media files, streams, microphones, and oscillators, and provides real-time effects, filters, and 3D positional audio.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

w3.org/TR/beacon/ #12,884

w3.org/TR/webaudio/ #12,884

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Total websites

Market share

Browser APIs

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

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.
⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.

🔥 13rd most popular in Germany in the Browser APIs category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

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.

Name

Rank

#12

#30

#49

#50

Name

Rank

nastykinkpigs.com

#10,696

#18,927

#19,438

#54,420

#55,731