🆚 Web Audio API vs. XMLHttpRequest
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About
The Web Audio API is a browser API for processing and generating audio in web applications.
It uses a modular audio graph built from interconnected audio nodes, supports audio from media files, streams, microphones, and oscillators, and provides real-time effects, filters, and 3D positional audio.
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.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Germany 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.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Fetch
WebRTC
WebSocket
Axios🗃️ 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 3,603,958 websites. However, data for Web Audio API is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.