🆚 WebGL vs. XMLHttpRequest
- 📈 XMLHttpRequest is much more popular than WebGL.
- 🌎 XMLHttpRequest is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 WebGL is more popular in Burkina Faso.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
WebGL
XMLHttpRequestType
Browser API
Browser API
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.
XMLHttpRequest (XHR) is a JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.
Headquarters
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Categories
Browser APIs › Rank #9
Browser APIs › Rank #2
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The XMLHttpRequest browser API is 19 times more popular than WebGL.
Total websites
Market share
Browser APIs
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
XMLHttpRequest is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while WebGL is more popular in Burkina Faso.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Russia
Canada
Australia
France
India
Japan
Netherlands
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.
- 🥇 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.
XMLHttpRequest is more popular than WebGL in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Health
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 3,524,018 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.