🆚 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
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.
Web storage is a browser API and client-side key-value database that allows websites to store persistent data on users' devices.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #10
Browser APIs › Rank #1
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Web Storage browser API is 155 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
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Entertainment
General News
Health
Sports
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.