🆚 Fetch vs. WebGL
- 📈 Fetch is much more popular than WebGL.
- 🌍 Fetch is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
FetchType
Browser API
Browser API
About
Fetch is a modern XMLHttpRequest alternative for fetching network resources.
WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free open web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #3
Browser APIs › Rank #9
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Fetch browser API is 14 times more popular than WebGL.
Total websites
Market share
Browser APIs
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Fetch is more popular than WebGL in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
India
Brazil
France
Australia
Japan
Netherlands
Canada
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in India in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Spain in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Iran in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Hong Kong in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Slovenia in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Fetch is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while WebGL is more commonly used on real estate sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Fashion/Beauty
General News
Internet Services
Travel
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 3,365,683 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.