🆚 Fetch vs. XMLHttpRequest
- 📈 XMLHttpRequest is noticeably more popular than Fetch.
- 🌎 XMLHttpRequest is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌎 Fetch is more popular in India, Brazil, and Spain.
Fetch
XMLHttpRequestType
About
Fetch is a modern 
JavaScript API for requesting network resources and exchanging data between web applications and servers.
It provides a promise-based interface for asynchronous HTTP requests, supports streaming request and response bodies, works with service workers, and can handle data formats such as 
JSON, text, blobs, and binary content.
XMLHttpRequest (XHR) is a JavaScript API for sending HTTP and HTTPS requests and receiving data from web servers without reloading the current page.
It supports both synchronous and asynchronous communication, allows monitoring of upload and download progress, and can exchange data in formats such as text, 
XML, JSON, and binary content.
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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
- 🥈 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.
- 🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Seychelles in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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WebSocket🗃️ 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.