🆚 Beacon API vs. XMLHttpRequest
- 📈 XMLHttpRequest is noticeably more popular than Beacon API.
- 🌎 XMLHttpRequest is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Beacon API is more popular in Israel, Argentina, and Guatemala.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
XMLHttpRequestType
Browser API
Browser API
About
The Beacon API is used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.
XMLHttpRequest (XHR) is a 
JavaScript API for sending HTTP and HTTPS requests and receiving data from web servers without reloading the current page.
It supports both synchronous and asynchronous communication, allows monitoring of upload and download progress, and can exchange data in formats such as text, 
XML, 
JSON, and binary content.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #4
Browser APIs › Rank #3
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The XMLHttpRequest browser API is 1.6 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.
XMLHttpRequest is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Beacon API is more popular in Israel, Argentina, and Guatemala.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
Canada
India
Russia
Japan
France
Netherlands
Awards
- 🥉 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 Australia in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Seychelles in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
XMLHttpRequest is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and business, while Beacon API is more commonly used on real estate, recreation and hobbies, and alcohol sites.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Fashion/Beauty
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Health
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 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.