🆚 Cookies vs. CORS
- 📈 Cookies is much more popular than CORS.
- 🌎 Cookies is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 CORS is more popular in Saint Helena.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Cookies
CORSType
Networking technology
Networking technology
About
Cookies are small pieces of data that a website stores in a visitor's web browser to preserve information between page requests and browsing sessions.
They are commonly used for user authentication, shopping carts, language and theme preferences, analytics, advertising personalization, and session tracking across websites and web applications.
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is an HTTP header-based mechanism used to safely bypass same-origin policy and allow requests to other domains.
Headquarters
Fremont, California, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Networking › Rank #3
Networking › Rank #9
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Cookies networking technology is 11 times more popular than CORS.
Total websites
Market share
Networking
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Cookies is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while CORS is more popular in Saint Helena.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Russia
Japan
France
Netherlands
China
Italy
Spain
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Networking category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Networking category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Seychelles in the Networking category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Networking category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Guernsey in the Networking category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Samoa in the Networking category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Saint Helena in the Networking category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in New Caledonia in the Networking category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Mongolia in the Networking category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Jordan in the Networking category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Cookies is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and education and reference, while CORS is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, sports, and technical information sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Health
Software/Hardware
Finance/Banking
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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IETF company profile🗃️ 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 3,511,995 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.