🆚 Beacon API vs. WebSocket
- 📈 Beacon API is five times more popular than WebSocket.
- 🌎 Beacon API is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 WebSocket is more popular in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Beacon API
WebSocketType
Browser API
Browser API
About
The Beacon API is used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.
WebSocket is a communication protocol that enables persistent, full-duplex data exchange between a client and a server over a single TCP connection.
It maintains a long-lived connection that allows low-latency message exchange, supports both text and binary frames, minimizes overhead by avoiding repeated request headers, and enables servers to push data to clients in real time.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Beacon API technology is 5 times more popular than WebSocket.
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 Germany, while WebSocket is more popular in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
Canada
India
Japan
France
Netherlands
Italy
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.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Russia in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Belarus in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Kazakhstan in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Iran in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Beacon API is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while WebSocket is more commonly used on finance and banking, public information, and government and military sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Health
Entertainment
Sports
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.