🆚 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.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
CookiesType
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-domain redirection that sends visitors to a different domain.
Headquarters
Fremont, California, United States
Categories
Networking › Rank #3
Networking › Rank #7
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Cookies networking technology is 4 times more popular than Redirect.
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 Redirect is more popular in Saint Helena, Grenada, and the Central African Republic.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Russia
Japan
France
Netherlands
Italy
China
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.
- 🥉 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 Liechtenstein in the Networking category.
- ⭐ 5th 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 than Redirect in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Health
Software/Hardware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
HTTP 2+
CSP
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 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.