🆚 Navigation Timing vs. Web Storage
- 📈 Web Storage is much more popular than Navigation Timing.
- 🌎 Web Storage is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Navigation Timing is more popular in Nauru.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Browser API
Browser API
About
Navigation Timing is a part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.
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
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
w3.orgCategories
Browser APIs › Rank #4
Browser APIs › Rank #1
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Web Storage browser API is 8 times more popular than Navigation Timing.
Total websites
Market share
Browser APIs
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Web Storage is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Navigation Timing is more popular in Nauru.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Japan
Spain
Australia
Italy
India
Brazil
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Brazil in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Mexico in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Israel in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Colombia in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Taiwan 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 among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Navigation Timing is more commonly used on fashion and beauty, sports, and travel sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
General News
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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WebSocket🗃️ 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 3,531,690 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.