🆚 Geolocation API vs. XMLHttpRequest
- 📈 XMLHttpRequest is much more popular than Geolocation API.
- 🌍 XMLHttpRequest is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Geolocation API
XMLHttpRequestType
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.
XMLHttpRequest (XHR) is a 
JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #10
Browser APIs › Rank #2
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The XMLHttpRequest browser API is 36 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.
XMLHttpRequest is more popular than Geolocation API in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Russia
Canada
Australia
India
France
Japan
Netherlands
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 British Virgin Islands in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Seychelles in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Browser APIs category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
XMLHttpRequest is more popular than Geolocation API in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Health
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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.