🆚 Beacon API vs. Web Storage
- 📈 Web Storage is much more popular than Beacon API.
- 🌍 Web Storage 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.
Web Storage is a browser API that provides client-side key-value storage for websites, allowing data to be stored directly in a user's web browser.
It stores data as strings associated with a website's origin, offers significantly larger storage capacity than cookies, and consists of the localStorage and sessionStorage interfaces.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #5
Browser APIs › Rank #1
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Web Storage browser API is 8 times more popular than Beacon API.
Total websites
Market share
Browser APIs
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Web Storage is more popular than Beacon API in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Japan
Australia
Spain
Italy
India
Netherlands
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 Laos in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Web Storage is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Beacon API is more commonly used on fashion and beauty, sports, and travel sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
General News
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
XMLHttpRequest
Fetch
WebSocket🗃️ 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 3,531,690 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.