🆚 Geolocation API vs. WebSocket

📈 WebSocket is four times more popular than Geolocation API.
🌎 WebSocket is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 Geolocation API is more popular in India, Cambodia, and Reunion.

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

Geolocation API

WebSocket

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.

WebSocket is a communication protocol that enables persistent, full-duplex data exchange between a client and a server over a single TCP connection.

It maintains a long-lived connection that allows low-latency message exchange, supports both text and binary frames, minimizes overhead by avoiding repeated request headers, and enables servers to push data to clients in real time.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Fremont, California, United States

Website

w3.org #12,884

datatracker.ietf.org

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The WebSocket 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.

WebSocket is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Geolocation API is more popular in India, Cambodia, and Reunion.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Netherlands

France

Australia

Canada

Russia

Italy

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.

⭐ 4th most popular in Kazakhstan in the Browser APIs category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Azerbaijan in the Browser APIs category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Browser APIs category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Ukraine in the Browser APIs category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Belarus in the Browser APIs category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

WebSocket is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Geolocation API is more commonly used on real estate, public information, and restaurants sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Finance/Banking

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Health

Travel

Fashion/Beauty

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#74

#96

#122

#242

#274

Name

Rank

#12

#13

#15