🆚 PerformanceObserver vs. WebSocket
- 📈 PerformanceObserver is slightly more popular than WebSocket.
- 🌎 PerformanceObserver is more popular in the United States, Australia, and Canada.
- 🌍 WebSocket is more popular in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Browser API
Browser API
About
PerformanceObserver is a part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.
WebSocket is a communication protocol that enables persistent, full-duplex data exchange between a client and a server over a single TCP connection.
It maintains a long-lived connection that allows low-latency message exchange, supports both text and binary frames, minimizes overhead by avoiding repeated request headers, and enables servers to push data to clients in real time.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Fremont, California, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #6
Browser APIs › Rank #7
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The PerformanceObserver browser API is 1.1 times more popular than WebSocket.
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, Australia, and Canada, while WebSocket is more popular in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany.
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Germany
Australia
France
Canada
Brazil
Italy
India
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 Kazakhstan in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Azerbaijan in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Ukraine in the Browser APIs category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Belarus 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 online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while WebSocket is more commonly used on business, Internet services, and finance and banking sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Health
Finance/Banking
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Fashion/Beauty
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

