🆚 WebGL vs. WebSocket
- 📈 WebSocket is twice as popular as WebGL.
- 🌎 WebSocket is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 WebGL is more popular in Japan, China, and Turkey.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
WebSocketType
Browser API
Browser API
About
WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free open web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL.
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
Fremont, California, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #9
Browser APIs › Rank #7
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The WebSocket browser API is 2.2 times more popular than WebGL.
Total websites
Market share
Browser APIs
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
WebSocket is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while WebGL is more popular in Japan, China, and Turkey.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Netherlands
France
Australia
Japan
China
Italy
Russia
Awards
- ⭐ 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.
- ⭐ 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.
WebSocket is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while WebGL is more commonly used on real estate and restaurants sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Finance/Banking
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Travel
Education/Reference
Health
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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IETF company profile🗃️ 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 3,371,940 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.