🆚 Beacon API vs. WebGL
- 📈 Beacon API is much more popular than WebGL.
- 🌎 Beacon API is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 🌍 WebGL is more popular in China, Russia, and Iran.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
WebGLType
Browser API
Browser API
About
The Beacon API is used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.
WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard that provides a low-level 
JavaScript API for rendering interactive 2D and 3D graphics directly in web browsers without plug-ins.
It is exposed through the HTML5 
canvas element, uses a shader-based architecture with GLSL, runs on the GPU for hardware-accelerated rendering, and is supported by all major browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #5
Browser APIs › Rank #9
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Beacon API technology is 10 times more popular than WebGL.
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 WebGL is more popular in China, Russia, and Iran.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Germany
India
Canada
Japan
France
Italy
Brazil
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.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Iran in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Hong Kong in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Slovenia in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Beacon API is more popular than WebGL in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Fashion/Beauty
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Health
Travel
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 3,524,018 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.