🆚 Cookies vs. Redirect
- 📈 Cookies is four times more popular than Redirect.
- 🌎 Cookies is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Redirect is more popular in Saint Helena, Grenada, and the Central African Republic.
CookiesType
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.
Redirect is a web redirection technique that automatically sends visitors from one domain to another instead of displaying content on the original website.
It is typically implemented using 
HTTP 3xx status codes, 
HTML meta refresh tags, or 
JavaScript redirects.
Headquarters
developer.mozilla.orgCategories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
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.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Grenada in the Networking category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Palau in the Networking category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Cambodia in the Networking category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Belize in the Networking category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Liechtenstein in the Networking category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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- 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.