🆚 Notifications API vs. XMLHttpRequest
- 📈 XMLHttpRequest is much more popular than Notifications API.
- 🌍 XMLHttpRequest is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Notifications API is particularly popular in India.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Notifications API
XMLHttpRequestType
Browser API
Browser API
About
The Notifications API is used to configure and display desktop notifications to the user.
XMLHttpRequest (XHR) is a 
JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #13
Browser APIs › Rank #2
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The XMLHttpRequest browser API is 204 times more popular than Notifications 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 Notifications API in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Russia
Canada
Australia
India
France
Japan
Netherlands
Awards
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Argentina in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in China in the Browser APIs category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in India in the Browser APIs category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in France in the Browser APIs category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Turkey 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 Notifications API in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Health
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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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.