🆚 Geolocation API vs. PerformanceObserver
- 📈 PerformanceObserver is four times more popular than Geolocation API.
- 🌎 PerformanceObserver is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 🌍 Geolocation API is more popular in Indonesia, Korea, and Iran.
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.
PerformanceObserver is a part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #10
Browser APIs › Rank #6
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The PerformanceObserver browser API is 4 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.
PerformanceObserver is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Geolocation API is more popular in Indonesia, Korea, and Iran.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Germany
India
Netherlands
France
Canada
Brazil
Japan
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 the British Virgin Islands in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Ecuador in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Australia in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in India in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
PerformanceObserver is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Geolocation API is more commonly used on real estate sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Health
Education/Reference
Travel
Internet Services
General News
Fashion/Beauty
Entertainment
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.