🆚 Geolocation API vs. Web Storage

📈 Web Storage is much more popular than Geolocation API.
🌍 Web Storage is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Type

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.

Web Storage is a browser API that provides client-side key-value storage for websites, allowing data to be stored directly in a user's web browser.

It stores data as strings associated with a website's origin, offers significantly larger storage capacity than cookies, and consists of the localStorage and sessionStorage interfaces.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

w3.org #12,884

html.spec.whatwg.org

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Web Storage browser API is 156 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.

Web Storage is more popular than Geolocation API in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

Japan

Spain

Italy

Australia

Netherlands

Brazil

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.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Browser APIs category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Browser APIs category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Browser APIs category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Browser APIs category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Web Storage is more popular than Geolocation API in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

General News

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#74

#96

#122

#242

#274

Name

Rank

#14

#16

#20

p**nhub.com

#26