🆚 Fetch vs. WebSocket
- 📈 Fetch is much more popular than WebSocket.
- 🌎 Fetch is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 WebSocket is more popular in San Marino and Turkmenistan.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Fetch
WebSocketType
Browser API
Browser API
About
Fetch is a modern XMLHttpRequest alternative for fetching network resources.
WebSocket is a communication protocol that enables persistent, full-duplex data exchange between a client and a server over a single TCP connection.
It maintains a long-lived connection that allows low-latency message exchange, supports both text and binary frames, minimizes overhead by avoiding repeated request headers, and enables servers to push data to clients in real time.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Fremont, California, United States
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Browser APIs › Rank #3
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Fetch browser API is 7 times more popular than WebSocket.
Total websites
Market share
Browser APIs
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Fetch is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while WebSocket is more popular in San Marino and Turkmenistan.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
India
Brazil
France
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
Spain
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 Kazakhstan in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Azerbaijan in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Ukraine in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Belarus 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 WebSocket is more commonly used on finance and banking, and government and military sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Fashion/Beauty
Internet Services
General News
Education/Reference
Travel
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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.