🆚 Cookies vs. FTP
- 📈 Cookies is much more popular than FTP.
- 🌍 Cookies is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Cookies
FTPType
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.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol for transferring files between a server and a client.
Headquarters
Fremont, California, United States
Fremont, California, United States
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Networking › Rank #3
Networking › Rank #10
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Cookies networking technology is 3,109 times more popular than FTP.
Total websites
Market share
Networking
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Cookies is more popular than FTP in all countries.
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.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in the United States in the Networking category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Germany in the Networking category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Lithuania in the Networking category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Cookies is more popular than FTP in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Health
Software/Hardware
Finance/Banking
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
HTTP 2+
CSP🗃️ 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 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.