🆚 Navigation Timing vs. XMLHttpRequest
- 📈 XMLHttpRequest is noticeably more popular than Navigation Timing.
- 🌎 XMLHttpRequest is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌎 Navigation Timing is more popular in Brazil, Mexico, and Israel.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
XMLHttpRequestType
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.
XMLHttpRequest (XHR) is a 
JavaScript API for sending HTTP and HTTPS requests and receiving data from web servers without reloading the current page.
It supports both synchronous and asynchronous communication, allows monitoring of upload and download progress, and can exchange data in formats such as text, 
XML, 
JSON, and binary content.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #4
Browser APIs › Rank #2
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The XMLHttpRequest browser API is 1.8 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.
XMLHttpRequest is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Navigation Timing is more popular in Brazil, Mexico, and Israel.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
India
Russia
France
Japan
Netherlands
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 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 among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and business, while Navigation Timing is more commonly used on motor vehicles, restaurants, and finance and banking sites.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Fashion/Beauty
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Sports
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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.