🆚 Cookies vs. HSTS

📈 Cookies is noticeably more popular than HSTS.
🌎 Cookies is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 HSTS is more popular in Switzerland, Finland, and Isle of Man.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Type

Networking technology

About

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

The HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) standard is a web security mechanism that ensures a user's browser always connects to a website using HTTPS, preventing insecure HTTP access.

It is enforced through the Strict-Transport-Security response header, which defines a policy duration, can apply to all subdomains, automatically upgrades HTTP requests to HTTPS, and protects against protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking.

Headquarters

Fremont, California, United States

Website

httpwg.org #2,480,735

datatracker.ietf.org

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Cookies networking technology is 1.4 times more popular than HSTS.

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 HSTS is more popular in Switzerland, Finland, and Isle of Man.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

France

Russia

Japan

Netherlands

China

Italy

Australia

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.

🥈 Second most popular in Vatican in the Networking category.
🥉 Third most popular in Switzerland in the Networking category.
🥉 Third most popular in Finland in the Networking category.
🥉 Third most popular in Isle of Man in the Networking category.
🥉 Third most popular in Saint Helena 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 HSTS is more commonly used on finance and banking, general news, and games sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Entertainment

Health

Software/Hardware

Finance/Banking

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank