🆚 Cookies vs. TLS

📈 TLS is twice as popular as Cookies.
🌎 TLS is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Cookies is more popular in China, the British Virgin Islands, and Seychelles.

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.

Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptographic protocol that provides end-to-end encryption of data transmitted over the Internet, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and authentication between communicating systems.

It is used in HTTPS to secure communication between browsers and servers, combining asymmetric cryptography for key exchange, symmetric encryption for data transfer, and digital certificates to verify server identity.

Headquarters

Fremont, California, United States

Website

httpwg.org #2,480,735

datatracker.ietf.org/wg/tls/about/

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

TLS networking technology is 2.1 times more popular than Cookies.

Total websites

Market share

Networking

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

TLS is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Cookies is more popular in China, the British Virgin Islands, and Seychelles.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Japan

France

Russia

Netherlands

Italy

Spain

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.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Networking category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Networking category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Networking category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Networking category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Networking category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

TLS is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and education and reference, while Cookies is more commonly used on travel sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Health

Software/Hardware

General News

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank