🆚 Web Storage vs. XMLHttpRequest
- 📈 Web Storage is four times more popular than XMLHttpRequest.
- 🌎 Web Storage is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 XMLHttpRequest is more popular in the British Virgin Islands, Pitcairn, and Nauru.
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About
Web Storage is a browser API that provides client-side key-value storage for websites, allowing data to be stored directly in a user's web browser.
It stores data as strings associated with a website's origin, offers significantly larger storage capacity than cookies, and consists of the localStorage and sessionStorage interfaces.
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 by country
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Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Browser APIs category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France 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
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🗃️ 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.