🆚 Geolocation API vs. Navigation Timing
- 📈 Navigation Timing is much more popular than Geolocation API.
- 🌍 Navigation Timing is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Geolocation APIType
Browser API
Browser API
About
The Geolocation API allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude. For privacy reasons, the user is asked for permission to report location information.
Navigation Timing is a part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #10
Browser APIs › Rank #4
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Navigation Timing browser API is 20 times more popular than Geolocation API.
Total websites
Market share
Browser APIs
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Navigation Timing is more popular than Geolocation API in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
India
Germany
Canada
Japan
France
Brazil
Italy
Awards
- ⭐ 7th most popular in India in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Brazil in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Indonesia in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Korea in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Brazil in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Mexico in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Israel in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Colombia in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Taiwan in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Navigation Timing is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty, while Geolocation API is more commonly used on real estate sites.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Sports
Entertainment
General News
Health
Education/Reference
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ 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 3,512,920 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.