🆚 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.
WebGL
WebSocketType
About
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.
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.
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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
- ⭐ 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.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Fetch🗃️ 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 3,532,268 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.