🆚 Beacon API vs. Web Audio API
- 📈 Beacon API is much more popular than Web Audio API.
- 🌍 Beacon API is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Web Audio API is particularly popular in Germany.
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.
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
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #4
Browser APIs › Rank #17
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Beacon API technology is 276 times more popular than Web Audio 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 Web Audio API in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Germany
Canada
India
Japan
France
Italy
Brazil
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.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Germany in the Browser APIs category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Beacon API is more popular than Web Audio API in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Fashion/Beauty
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Sports
Entertainment
Health
Education/Reference
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.