🆚 Cookies vs. CSP

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
Cookies
CSP

Type

Networking technology
Networking technology

About

Cookies are small pieces of data that a website sends to a visitor's web browser when they visit.

The Content-Security-Policy HTTP response header and meta tag are used to control what resources a given page can load.

Headquarters

Fremont, California, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

httpwg.org #2,480,735
w3.org/TR/CSP/ #12,884

Categories

Networking › Rank #3
Networking › Rank #6

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Cookies networking technology is 2.5 times more popular than CSP.
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 CSP is more popular in Brunei Darussalam.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Russia
Japan
Netherlands
India
China
Italy

Awards

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 marketing and merchandising, while CSP is more commonly used on public information sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Entertainment
Health
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1
#2
#4
#5
#7
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Name
Rank
#1
#2
#4
#5
#7
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See also

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