🆚 Navigation Timing vs. XMLHttpRequest
- 📈 XMLHttpRequest is noticeably more popular than Navigation Timing.
- 🌎 XMLHttpRequest is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌎 Navigation Timing is more popular in Brazil, Mexico, and Hong Kong.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ 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 #5
Browser APIs › Rank #3
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The XMLHttpRequest browser API is 1.6 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, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Navigation Timing is more popular in Brazil, Mexico, and Hong Kong.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
Canada
Russia
India
Japan
France
Netherlands
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Hong Kong in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Brazil in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Mexico 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.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia 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, business, and fashion and beauty, while Navigation Timing is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, motor vehicles, and recreation and hobbies sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Fashion/Beauty
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Sports
Internet Services
Health
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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.