🆚 PerformanceObserver vs. WebGL

📈 PerformanceObserver is twice as popular as WebGL.
🌎 PerformanceObserver is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 WebGL is more popular in Germany, Japan, and China.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

PerformanceObserver

WebGL

Type

Browser API

About

PerformanceObserver is a part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.

WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard that provides a low-level JavaScript API for rendering interactive 2D and 3D graphics directly in web browsers without plug-ins.

It is exposed through the HTML5 canvas element, uses a shader-based architecture with GLSL, runs on the GPU for hardware-accelerated rendering, and is supported by all major browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Website

w3.org #12,884

khronos.org/webgl/ #13,034

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The PerformanceObserver browser API is 2.3 times more popular than WebGL.

Total websites

Market share

Browser APIs

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

PerformanceObserver is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while WebGL is more popular in Germany, Japan, and China.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Australia

Japan

France

Netherlands

India

Canada

China

Awards

🥉 Third most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Browser APIs category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Ecuador in the Browser APIs category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Australia in the Browser APIs category.
⭐ 6th most popular in India in the Browser APIs category.

⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Browser APIs category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Iran in the Browser APIs category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the Browser APIs category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Hong Kong in the Browser APIs category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Slovenia in the Browser APIs category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

PerformanceObserver is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while WebGL is more commonly used on real estate sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Travel

Education/Reference

Health

Internet Services

Entertainment

General News

Fashion/Beauty

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#14

#39

#68

#93

#94

Name

Rank

#101

#186

#609

#651

nationalgeographic.com

#1,301